1991 Starting from the core

"Matsuda-kun, when you go back, send a message to Kudo-kun. Tell him that your wafer fab can't handle it and ask him to let Deyuan do the manufacturing."

At the entrance of 11F where the Yuanxin YOS team is located, Su Yuanshan chatted with a Niguo engineer named Ichiro Matsuda on his work badge and couldn't help but joke.

——After reaching a strategic partnership, Yuanxin and Sony sent many employees to each other for exchanges and learning.

Of course, this kind of exchanges usually focus on areas where one's own needs or is weak, or where cooperation is needed. For example, Niguo dispatches employees in system and chip design, while Yuanxin dispatches employees from the design center.

Hearing this, Ichiro Matsuda shrugged his shoulders - this was a habit he had learned from others when he came to Yuanxin: "Mr. Shan, I am not qualified to tell this to Mr. General Manager."

"Tsk, tsk, it seems that your general manager is indeed a bit out of touch with the masses." Su Yuanshan laughed and walked towards the conference room on 11F.

The operating system team has been the team with the least presence in Yuanxin in the past few years, and its background is quite "drifting".

The predecessor of the operating system team can be traced back to the Jiangdu Building era, when it was established to solve the Chinese character message and sending system for paging base stations. Later, this group of people developed a GSM-based SMS system. Then, Su Yuanshan decided to secretly help the infant Linux, so he set up a Linux distribution team... and finally, after several integrations, Yuanxin's system development department was formed.

During this period, the system team was first attached to the communications department, then became an independent team, and then returned to the mobile phone department. Finally, the department was reformed and returned to the communications department...

It was also thanks to the fact that the team leader Chen Gang was a "careerist" who clamored to kill Microsoft. He was focused on code. Otherwise... someone else would have rebelled long ago.

Of course, as a veteran of Yuanxin, although Chen Gang's operating system team has always been in exile, he has never been able to say anything about his treatment. Chen Gang himself walked to P12 step by step, and was only one step away from reaching P13.

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Although the operating system team is small, it is well-equipped, and the conference room is decorated in strict accordance with the standards of the Level 2 team. TVs, playback systems, and projection systems are all available.

When Su Yuanshan walked into the conference room, a group of people stood up and applauded to welcome him.

Among the participants, in addition to the key members of the team itself, there were also engineers from the mobile phone department and Sony.

"Everyone, please sit down. I'll listen." Su Yuanshan waved his hand and sat at the end of the table with a smile without showing any courtesy.

Chen Gang dressed up specially today, and it was obvious that he was indeed a little excited - after all, in the past six months, the operating system team that Grandpa does not love and Grandma does not love is the moment that has received the most attention in the past few years. In addition to Lao Tian and Duan who would come over to say hello every now and then, Mr. Xi and Mr. Shan would also take a stroll from time to time.

In the end, Mr. Shan even urged him directly.

"Ahem... Mr. Shan, everyone. Without further ado, let's go straight to the demonstration."

As he spoke, Chen Gang opened his laptop and projected the image onto the screen through a newly launched DLP projector.

"In order to facilitate demonstration and promotion, we have specially developed a Linux-based simulator. If necessary, we will also develop a Windows-based version in the future. Okay, everyone, please take a look."

Chen Gang moved the mouse, first opened the simulator, and then loaded the system. After a while, a slightly rough mobile phone model appeared on the screen.

"Our YOS system is currently mainly adapted to the entire series of YX architecture microprocessors. Of course, it can also be adapted to other architectures through compilation."

"The overall system framework of YOS has a four-layer architecture, from low to high, namely the kernel layer, system layer, application framework layer, and application layer."

"I'll start from the bottom now - as we all know, our team was originally from the Linux development team, but later we considered that the forced open source of Linux was not in line with our pursuit as a commercial enterprise operating system team, so we adopted It has a UNIX-like style and also follows POSIX specifications. In a sense, YOS and Linux are brothers in the same discipline..."

Seeing that this guy was reminiscing about the past and thinking about the sweet, Su Yuanshan quickly interrupted: "Old Chen, stop reminiscing about the past and just talk about the key points."

Chen Gang was brewing his emotions when he was suddenly interrupted. After a few seconds of depression, he finally decided not to twist Su Yuanshan's thigh, but he still couldn't help but said: "Mr. Shan, you asked us to give up using Linux as the kernel."

"I had a foresight at that time." Su Yuanshan waved his hand with a smile: "Hurry up and enter the application layer directly."

"Uh...okay."

Chen Gang skipped the explanation of the underlying architecture in a few sentences, explained the system in passing, and then jumped directly to the top-level architecture.

"Let's put it this way, the main reason why YOS is difficult to produce is that we have been optimizing the application layer framework. After all, even though YOS is small, it is a platform-level system. As long as you follow our developer guide, you can develop Various applications based on YOS are coming out."

At this time, an engineer from the mobile phone department raised his hand and said: "Mr. Chen, what is the size of the application?"

"As big as the heart is, the program can be as big as it is." Chen Gang said with a smile: "I know what the mobile phone department is thinking... You just want to develop email, notepad, document reading, and even an Internet browser—— Yes or no?"

The engineer chuckled.

"Don't worry, we have them all." Chen Gang smiled conceitedly: "Let's put it this way, you can understand it as an operating system with the same status as Windows, Linux and macOS. However, compared to the previous three, it focuses on PC field, our YOS is more focused on the field of low-power handheld mobile devices."

Su Yuanshan nodded slightly, but he obviously wasn't here to listen to Chen Gang's bragging - Chen Gang's rhetoric should be blown to downstream partners at the developer conference. Rather than "fooling" yourself.

So Su Yuanshan immediately said: "Don't you have a simulator? Demonstrate it. What about real machine adaptation? How long do you have to wait?"

"The actual machine adaptation will probably only take place this month. The demonstration is very simple - just watch it."

As Chen Gang clicked on the phone's button, the operating system immediately entered a control interface.

In addition to phone books, games, mailboxes, documents, the Internet, and even a reading...

"These are the native applications we provide." Chen Gang continued to simulate operations with the mouse and demonstrated all the applications.

Su Yuanshan nodded silently. As someone who has always paid attention to it, he naturally knew that YOS already had the prototype of Android, or IOS. But obviously, the most important thing about an operating system is the creation of its ecosystem, not how many functions it can achieve.

So Su Yuanshan said again: "You just said you would provide a developer guide. Are you ready? Then there are application frameworks and tools. How much can you provide?"

"You know, it is difficult to provide a system, but it is even more difficult to make all developers and even user groups accept it and provide an excellent development environment."

"User experience, we can't take it into consideration right now. That's something developers have to consider. But how much have you considered the environment and tools that are convenient for developers?"

Su Yuanshan glanced at Ichiro Matsuda as he spoke, and saw the latter nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice - this person was the person in charge of Sony's application development for PDA.

When Chen Gang heard this, he smiled conceitedly again.

"Mr. Shan, don't bully us. Starting today, we will immediately set up a dedicated framework and tool team to serve developers with all our strength."

"Okay!" Su Yuanshan stood up without any ink.

He looked at the programmers who turned to look at him at the same time, and suddenly smiled.

"Then, starting today, the operating system will be upgraded to an independent first-level laboratory."

Everyone present was startled, and then burst into shouts of joy.

The applause was like thunder and quickly spread throughout the building.

Chen Gang felt a little dizzy for a moment. But when he saw Su Yuanshan's long-lost smile, he took a long breath, and the smile slowly began to spread on his face.

——As an old employee who joined Yuanxin when he was in Jiangdu Building, Chen Gang has to admit that Yuanxin does a good job in treating the elderly, especially those who are still working on the front line.

But although the remuneration is good, Chen Gang is not someone who only pursues remuneration - if that were the case, he would have been able to rely on his status as a member of the founder team and a senior engineer of P12 to get by at Yuanxin and live a retirement life in advance.

He is a pursuer.

Defeating Microsoft was the slogan he shouted back then. Even though he was teased all the time, he knew...it was a bit impossible.

But people have to pursue something.

Being unable to defeat Microsoft does not mean that you cannot compete with Windows - therefore, the Yuanxin distribution of Linux is currently the most outstanding version among many Linux distributions, not to mention domestic, and even many commercial notebooks and hosts abroad. The Linux system released by YX will be pre-installed.

But as the X86 architecture army grows stronger, Windows systems are gradually becoming more and more popular.

Especially after Windows 95... almost everyone who works on systems realizes that in the field of desktop operating systems for families and individuals, no one can beat Windows.

However, Chen Gang believes that just because the desktop system cannot defeat Windows, it does not mean that it cannot defeat it in other fields.

Based on his understanding of the digital age proposed by Su Yuanshan, as well as the mobile Internet and handheld smart devices, Chen Gang felt that this was his own direction.

Therefore, when Su Yuanshan asked if he had considered building an ecosystem, he was so confident.

The ecological chain is a topic that is never far away from the people of Yuanxin. It is even the direction and guidance for the development of the entire Yuanxin.

How could he not consider it?

Now, Su Yuanshan promised in front of everyone that the operating system would be upgraded to an independent first-level laboratory.

This means that the operating system team will get rid of the days of "depending on others" and become a top laboratory "at the same level" as several major R\u0026D departments, and will have higher status and resources.

It also means that Mr. Shan... recognized them.

"Thank you Mr. Shan."

Chen Gang took a deep breath and signaled his colleagues to calm down. Then, he met Su Yuanshan's gaze.

"Mr. Shan, if nothing else, in the field of mobile device systems, we..."

"To be king."