Giant of the times

When he arrived outside the casino, Liu Luanxiong was even more shocked. In front of a stretched Rolls-Royce, eight burly bodyguards in black stood respectfully in two rows. Under his gaze, Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin He got into the car and drove away. The bodyguards got into four other black cars and followed him.

Although Liu Luanxiong had seen the world, he was stunned and stunned at this moment.

"The four bodyguard cars are also Rolls-Royces, but not the extended version... Who is he? To be so grand! Oh, by the way, that woman called him Mr. Li!"

"Mr·Li???"

"Could he be the American super billionaire Chronos Li!!!"

Liu Luanxiong was suddenly shocked!

At this time, he recalled his previous conversation with Li Zetian and became more and more certain that he was Chronos Li. Gradually, Liu Luanxiong's face turned red, and he felt ridiculous at the thought of showing off in front of him.

"I still go to Hong Kong to play with my stars... Chen Ruoxi, the silver medal winner of the first Hong Kong TVB Rookie Singing Competition, is as beautiful as a flower, the most gorgeous, and can be called a peerless beauty! When I go back this time, my target is her!!! "

Haha, isn't a little singer already at your fingertips?

Liu Luanxiong pushed up his glasses and grinned. What happened just now was instantly forgotten. Now his mind was full of Chen Ruoxi, as if he saw her being pressed under him and begging...

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The next day, Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin returned to Los Angeles.

Liu Luanxiong was eager to return home, so he also took a flight back to Hong Kong, hoping to embrace the beauty as soon as possible. However, his wish is not easy to achieve. Even if it takes a lot of effort, the possibility of success is extremely small.

At the CES exhibition, the Commodore company stole the show. The Commodore-64 computer became one of the most eye-catching products at the exhibition, attracting numerous media reports.

The American public was attracted to this cheap but high-performance computer.

"The Commodore-64 computer is not expensive. Not only can you play games, but it also has the functions of an ordinary computer. It's a great deal!"

"Haha, that's right! We can both learn computer programming and play games on it."

"I just decided to buy a Commodore-64 because it is cheap and can play many games!"

"..."

The biggest selling point of the Commodore-64 is that it can play games and has computer functions. For children, the Commodore-64 can play games and is very popular with them, so they beg their parents to buy it, and the excuse is fair and square. I want to learn. Computer Programming. Many parents are actually reluctant to buy game consoles for their children, fearing that they will become bored by playing with them. However, because the Commodore-64 can learn programming, many parents think twice and are probably willing to spend money to buy a Commodore-64.

When the BBK company was founded, in order to promote the BBK machine, it hyped it as a learning machine, so it quickly surpassed the Xiaobawang game machine and occupied the market. However, in fact, the BBK learning machine is just a game machine.

The same is true for the product positioning of the Commodore-64. It was marketed as a computer, but in fact it was more like a computer game console. One caters to parents and the other caters to children. In addition, the price is not expensive, so the Commodore-64 is naturally very popular.

Affected by the Commodore-64, the sales of the Flamingo-1 game console also declined.

The rise of computer games is unstoppable, and Li Zetian understands this very clearly. But for now, computer games are still unable to compare with home games. Both the graphics and performance are far behind.

Of course, Flamingo is bound to establish a computer game development department in the future.

At this moment, companies that are feeling overwhelmed should be Apple, IBM, Compaq, HP and other companies.

The strong attack of Commodore-64 is undoubtedly carving up their computer market, especially for Apple, it is even worse!

Thomas Rockefeller frowned and paced around, with a look of irritation on his face.

Vincent Gay stood aside, silent.

Several people from the California consortium sat on a couch and stared at Thomas Rockefeller.

"Within one week, Commodore sold 245,000 Commodore-64s. The sales volume was astonishing. Even Apple and IBM couldn't do it! The situation is getting worse and worse for Apple!!" Thomas Rockefeller said solemnly. .

Vincent Gay nodded: "Yes, Mr. Rockefeller."

"Have you contacted Chronos Li? Did he say when will the second round of negotiations start?" Thomas asked in a low and hoarse voice.

"Chronos Li said that he is currently busy with Sun Computer Systems and cannot spare time to negotiate with Apple." Vincent Gay shook his head and sighed.

When Thomas Rockefeller heard this, a flash of anger flashed across his face, and he said angrily: "What do you mean you can't spare time? Can't he send someone to negotiate with us? This is obviously an excuse! I don't know what he is thinking. Isn’t it? Don’t you just want to wait for Apple’s market value to be even lower, and then acquire it again!!!”

Li Zetian does have this plan, but he is indeed very busy now.

Sun Computer Systems has just acquired SGI and Moon, acquiring their technologies and talents, and the company's development capabilities have been further strengthened.

Workstations, servers, and supercomputers not only need powerful processors, but also powerful operating systems!

After returning to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, Li Zetian often stayed at Sun Computer Systems to guide work and plan future development directions.

"Sun Computer Systems must develop a powerful enterprise-class operating system. Only in this way can we completely defeat IBM and DEC!" Li Zetian said when he summoned the company's main leaders for a meeting. His eyes turned to William Nelson Joy, who founded Moon Microsystems together with Andy Beckettson and Scott Marconi, and was the chief scientist of the company. Now he has naturally joined Sun Computer Systems Corporation.

"I have seen MoonOS, the operating system of Moon graphics workstation, which has great development potential. William Nelson Joy developed the BSD operating system (a derivative of Unix) and the Vi compiler when he was a student. I suggested that he be the operator. The person in charge of the system!”

Everyone nodded in agreement. Although William Nelson Joy was young, in his mid-twenties, he was extremely talented and was the inventor of the BSD operating system. This made him the undisputed person in charge of the operating system.

As far as Li Zetian knows, others have developed many versions of BSD based on BSD, the most famous ones being FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Apple's Mac-OS-X operating system is also largely based on BSD.

William Nelson Joy stood up at this time, bent down and said, "Thank you Mr. Li and everyone for your trust. I will definitely not let you down!"

When he sat down, Li Zetian continued: "The name of the next-generation newly developed operating system is called Solaris. In addition, from today on, the name of Sun Computer Systems Company will be changed to Sun Microsystems Company to remind everyone of "microsystem" The importance of computers, not computers! Sun Microsystems should not only pay attention to hardware, but also pay attention to software!!!"

The reason why Sun Microsystems, which had a market value of more than 200 billion US dollars in its previous life, declined so quickly was because the hardware was so profitable that it went to their heads, and instead they neglected the software and systems.

PS: I have something to do today, so the update time is a bit late. There will be at least three updates tomorrow. Do you have any tickets?