Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

These words landed with a resounding thud, attracting everyone's attention immediately. Everyone looked at the young man who was even younger than themselves, and then they realized.

"President Qin?"

"President Qin, you are my idol!"

"President Qin, what software is Factory 960 developing? We'll help for free!"

The enthusiasm of the crowd startled Qin Yang. These were all big names, famous people whom even he, in his later life, admired greatly. Reading their development histories filled him with emotion, and seeing their somewhat tragic endings made him feel惋惜.

Now, these people were standing in front of him, admiring him. This reversal left Qin Yang momentarily at a loss.

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet everyone," Qin Yang said, composing himself. "I've gathered you here today because there's a major project I need your help with."

"President Qin, please tell us."

"By the way, President Qin just said something about creating a myth for our national software industry. What exactly is it?"

These technical geniuses were usually taciturn, but today was an exception because of Qin Yang. The man before them was a magical man, and they admired him.

"First, we need to write an operating system."

Hearing Qin Yang mention this, Yan Chao spoke up first: "President Qin, I wrote a CCDOS last year. I think it's quite good. Is there something wrong with that operating system?"

"Well, CCDOS is indeed good, but this command-prompt-based operating system is outdated. We need to write a window operating system where the entire interface is visual, with various icons. We'll use a mouse to operate it."

Everyone became serious.

From a black screen to a window, this was a huge step forward. The amount of software coding would also increase many times over, the complexity of the software would greatly increase, and the operating efficiency would also slow down a lot.

"President Qin, if we use this kind of system, the computer will be very slow," Yan Chao continued.

"Yes, we must have our own processor. We have named it Longxin. The road is rugged, but the future is bright. We can't always use Intel's."

"Well, President Qin is right!"

"If it's a completely new instruction set, then we'll need to use the C language to write it," Wang Min said.

Initially, programming didn't require a language. It was directly input using punched paper tape to communicate with the computer. Later, assembly language appeared, which essentially replaced the paper tape with letters. It still directly operated the machine. The characteristic of this language is its high efficiency, but its disadvantage is that it's only developed for fixed hardware and has no portability.

Then, in the early 1970s, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs designed this advanced language to develop the advanced UNIX system. It adopted many of the syntax structures of the B language and added many new features and functions.

This language was designed to provide programmers with an efficient, portable, and easy-to-use programming language, so that it could be easily ported even when using different computers.

Now that we have a brand-new processor and a brand-new instruction set, using assembly language to write programs would mean that everything would need to be completely redone.

If we use the C language, then all the programs can be used, as long as there is a dedicated compiler!

Therefore, Wang Min made this suggestion.

"That's right, we do need to use the C language to write it," Qin Yang nodded. "Next, I'll talk about some of the characteristics of this brand-new system."

Apple's computers wouldn't have a graphical interface until next year. As for Microsoft's system, it would be even later. Although they started research and development in '83, it wasn't officially released until '85. This system, code-named Windows 1.0, was just a program running on top of DOS, but it already amazed many people.

It emphasized the use of the mouse, and most operations could be completed entirely with the mouse. It had some simple built-in applications, such as a calendar, notepad, calculator, etc. Overall, this program was similar to a large PDA, but the most amazing thing about this program was that it allowed users to run multiple programs simultaneously and switch between them, which was simply incredible.

The current window processing system certainly can't have various special effects yet. Just being able to perform basic operations is already very good. Qin Yang described the various system functions in detail, and everyone listened very carefully.

Yan Chao was also taking notes, as someone who had developed CCDOS, this new system would definitely be his main focus.

It was very challenging, which he liked very much. It was expected to take one or two years to complete the development. By that time, a new generation of processors would have appeared, and domestic ones might also be available. At that time, it would be a perfect match for the new processor.

Many issues involving the conversion between 16-bit and 32-bit systems can be made into functions and specially encapsulated inside, making it convenient for overall replacement at that time.

Qiu Jun was also listening carefully, hoping to play a role in it.

"Okay, that's all we'll say about the operating system. Next, let's talk about the office suite."

"What is an office suite?" Qiu Jun asked curiously.

"The main task of computers is to help people with their daily office work. This requires a word processing system, a spreadsheet system, and a presentation system," Qin Yang explained.

When computers enter daily work and life, these suites are mainly used. If you need to write articles, you need to use this word processing system, which is also a text editor.

If you need to do data statistics, you need such a spreadsheet system, which is actually a simple database. As for the presentation system, it is even more powerful. If users need to present their achievements to the outside world, they have to use this system to give speeches. Because of its huge use, programmers jokingly call it: The world's most powerful development tool is PPT!

Someone who builds cars can get money from the capital market by just creating a PPT. Someone with an elementary school education level can use PPT to give reports to university students.