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"As for our mainframe plan, when will it be implemented?" Sanders suddenly asked again.

Catherine was stunned for a moment.

"Mainframe? Supercomputer?"

Sanders nodded.

"Without supercomputers, we would never be able to enter the mainstream... The configuration of personal computers is really too weak."

Catherine nodded, indeed.

"Look, what if we dig Seymour Clay over?"

Sanders was stunned for a moment. This matter seemed a bit inappropriate for him to talk about. Seymour Clay was better than Sanders in terms of reputation and social reputation. He really didn't know how to answer.

But after thinking about it, he said: "No problem, but now is not the best time. I can see that Seymour Clay has a fanatical feeling for supercomputers, as long as he can be given enough authority

, I believe there is no problem. It’s just that if we want to poach him, it would be better to wait until the end of the year or next year. The conflict between him and his company is getting more and more serious. We just need to wait until the situation is clear."

Catherine nodded with satisfaction.

"Sanders, let's do this...you should come up with a mainframe plan first, uh...don't use IBM's plan. The mainframe must be able to run smoothly, especially during compilation. This is the most important thing."

important."

She thought for a while and then said: "As for the operating system, maybe we can also work on the mainframe... Of course, this is not the most important thing. Seymour Clay may have some suggestions in this regard. This matter

As for the matter, I will leave it to you for the time being."

Seymour Cray was very good, but only in the field of supercomputers. Catherine originally wanted him to become the president of Apple, but she knew that the future trend was personal computers, and vector machines were a dead end in the end, although in the end

There are twists and turns, but Catherine believes that the personal computer cannot be discarded.

Especially since I am very likely to develop personal system terminals for American soldiers in the future.

"Hoo~"

Back inside the house, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, she picked up a copy of Peter Drucker's "Results Management" that had just been published last year, and started flipping through it.

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, is known as the "master of masters" and the "prophet of capitalism". Bill Gates and other outstanding wealthy people have been deeply influenced by him.

At this time, Peter Drucker was a consultant to General Electric, but a few years later he would teach at Claremont University.

Catherine considered whether she could ask him to come over to give a few lessons to her subordinates, or hire him as a consultant with a high salary.

Nowadays, Ark Group is expanding rapidly as a whole. In terms of management, it just needs to be supplemented. What if the other party can really make up for Ark Company's management shortcomings?

It's just a pity that the other party is obsessed with education. It would be great if we could recruit the other party to become the president.

Catherine thought for a while, then opened her notebook and wrote the name "Peter Drucker" under the phoenix operating system.

"That's all."

In the next few days, Catherine took matters into her own hands and squatted at Apple's headquarters all day and night to start the development of this Phoenix operating system, which was similar to DOS.

While Catherine was immersed in writing the operating system, at IBM's headquarters, Thomas John Watson Jr. was looking at the report about Intel in his hand, and then frowned, he seemed to have a headache.

His father is Thomas Sr., the pioneer of IBM.

In 1961, IBM's annual revenue reached 2 billion U.S. dollars. The value of its stock increased four times from five years ago. At that time, there were 6,000 computers in operation in the United States, and IBM accounted for 4,000 of them. People began to call IBM "Blue"

Watson was promoted to chairman and chairman of the board, and began to direct the production of the famous "ibm360 system."

Watson spent three times the company's annual revenue and spent a total of 5 billion US dollars to develop the 360 ​​series of large computers. Using the latest integrated circuit technology, Watson was full of confidence and wanted to establish IBM's dominance in large computers.

positioning.

However, man’s calculation is not as good as God’s calculation.

Seymour Cray's vector machine came out of nowhere and was released before the 360. At a cost of US$7 million, IBM, the big elephant, was at its feet.

The huge gap between 5 billion and 7 million made Watson a little lose his temper. But he was worthy of being the leader of IBM, and soon he cheered up.

At this time, IBM discovered that Seymour Clay was having a conflict with the company. Although a new generation of machines was being developed, IBM's invisible pressure was reduced a lot.

At this time, Watson suddenly discovered that another company that had risen like a comet had become his opponent.

——intel.

To be precise, it should be Ark Group, which is Catherine's Ark Group Company. Both Intel and Apple are its subsidiaries.

Ark Company, which is in a period of rapid expansion, has great vitality and various products are emerging one after another, which is really amazing.

The most important thing is that Watson got the news that the other party had plans to enter the mainframe computer.

It is hard to imagine what their entry will bring to the entire mainframe market.

And more importantly, according to the information he received, the other party's mainframe concept has obviously avoided many of the current shortcomings, which IBM has not even considered before!

But as soon as Catherine mentioned these problems, little Watson realized that the problem was serious, and it had become serious.

In fact, many of IBM's future plans may have to be canceled!

For example, IBM's latest concept machine.

With this type of host, all programs run on the host, and the terminal only has a monitor and keyboard.

Such a machine does not limit the number of users and can dynamically allocate time according to the number of users, but the "time slice" allocated to each user is relatively large. If only one person uses it, it will not feel like anything.

When the number of people increases, you can feel obvious pauses every once in a while, such as when compiling a program. The old Pascal compiler prints a dot on the screen as feedback every time a line is scanned. If the number of people increases,

, you will find that every time you type a dozen lines of dots, it stops. At this time, it is the turn of other users' processes to execute. After a while, all other users take a turn, continue to type, and type a dozen more lines.

It stops moving again... This cycle continues until the compilation is completed.

However, Catherine restricted users on the one hand, and on the other hand, in order to maintain the smoothness of the system, she planned to use a separate operating system.

IBM also has a DOS (not the later DOS) operating system, but it is too far from the concept of the "Phoenix" operating system!

As a result, IBM was completely left behind by the other party!

Little Watson fell into deep worry...