Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Tang Huan was really aroused by curiosity, and then asked: "Now Jobs's largest capital is the next company. What does he use to fool ibm?"

One year after its establishment, the next company ran out of funds, so Jobs valued it at 30 million U.S. dollars and encouraged the richest man to invest 10 million U.S. dollars, but Tang Huan was only willing to use 3 million U.S. dollars to send him.

Subsequently, the important shareholder of PeopleSoft and billionaire Rose Perot, who was informed, had a keen interest in Next Company, thinking that this would be another interesting venture in the IT field. Therefore, he reached an agreement with Jobs to use 2000 Ten thousand US dollars, got 16% of the shares of Next Company, making this company without any income, the value reached 125 million US dollars.

Faced with Tang Huan, who was unwilling to increase capital, did not accept diluted shares, and only planned to divest his capital, Jobs finally squeezed his nose and recognized the richest man’s 3 million US dollars, which still occupied 10% of the shares of next company, in order to increase the gold content of next company. .

Unlike Tang Huan who was only willing to be a shareholder, Rose Perrot took the post of president of Next Company and assisted Next Company to promote it, and Jobs continued to hold the title of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

Tang Huan just sold Jobs to save face for possible future needs. He was not really optimistic about the prospects of the next company, and there was no need to pay too much attention to it, so it is really not clear right now, what Jobs tossed the next company into. Up.

"The progress of next company's product development seems to have accelerated a lot in the past year. It is said that the prototype of the system can be demonstrated very smoothly. What Jobs promoted to ibm is the nextstep operating system used by the next computer. Ross Pei In this process, Luo played a very important role in leading the needle." After John Chambers finished speaking, his eyes turned to Charles Simeone, "Charles is more aware of the dynamics in the software field."

"Nextstep's operating system, nextstep, is based on the computer operating system microkernel mach developed by Carnegie Mellon University, and the unix software suite bsd of the University of Berkeley, using objective-c as the native language, and has now been developed to version 0.8. "Charles Simeone took over and said: "Since Jobs has successfully promoted Nextstep to ibm, I believe that the microprocessors it supports, in addition to Motorola's mc68000 series, will also include Intel's intel80386."

"Jobs has always looked down on ibm's product design concepts, and now he is willing to give his artistic works to the crude blue giant to use. How did he become so pragmatic and even defeated his personality?" Tang Huan, whose temperament was Steve Jobs, couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"It is estimated that in addition to seeing Apple's participation in the ibm risc processor development plan and pantothenic acid in my heart, I also want to take this to attack Gates. Jobs once lobbied Gates to develop software for the next computer on the grounds that everyone had cooperated on the mac project. . But Gates not only sternly refused, but also publicly bad-mouthed the prospect of the next project, making other software developers discouraged from the next project. Now, the contradiction between the two people has become public." John Chambers analyzed.

Tang Huan nodded suddenly. If nextstep and ibm were married and it was Steve Jobs specifically for disgusting Gates, it would make sense.

The key reason why the relationship between Jobs and Gates is so boring is that the two basic industry concepts are opposed-the former insists on the hardware and software work together, while the latter advocates the division of hardware and software, so that there is Microsoft Living space. As powerful as Tang Huan, isn't it also let Fang Yuan and Zheru take their responsibilities.

Both of these two people are full of personalities, and they can't even reach a compromise in business, and the result can only be incompatible.

"The mentality of ibm is hard to understand. After reaching an agreement with Jobs and getting authorization from nextstep, the news was announced immediately. Is it because you want to beat Microsoft?" John Chambers thoughtfully said, "Guys. After learning of this news, he realized that ibm might lose its dependence on the Microsoft operating system, he immediately made no secret of his anger, and publicly criticized nextstep for being incompatible with anything, which would make the ibm personal computer platform uncomfortable. The outlook is getting bleak."

"It should be the grievances and entanglements that caused the parties involved to lose their psychological balance." Tang Huan expressed his opinion, "The operating system os/2 used by ibm-ps/2, due to the high demand for system resources, actually The performance is not good, especially if there is no graphical user interface function. You can cooperate with the developer-Microsoft, and half-heartedly allocate resources to build your own graphical user interface operating system windows.

"This directly leads to the fact that ms-dos, which does not even support multi-tasking features, still has a very important position on the ibm personal computer platform, so that ibm-ps/2 is always indistinguishable from ibm-pc compatible machines. The meticulous layout was in vain. In the end, only Microsoft, regardless of manufacturer, took all ibm personal computers and made a lot of money."

"Nextstep should still be very attractive to ibm. After all, the Mac built by Jobs, in product promotion and the ease of use brought to users through the graphical user interface, left a deep impression on people." Charles Simon Nepal continues to analyze from a technical point of view.

"In addition to the well-known use of object-oriented programming, nextstep embodies Jobs's consistent and unique requirements in the appearance of the graphical user interface system. Compared with ms-dos, windows, and os/2, it is indeed much advanced."

"For example, every program that is running will be assigned an icon. The full-color format of 48x48 pixels is currently the largest and most detailed bit icon system. Even our graphical user interface operating system has to be resigned."

"After ibm showed enthusiasm for nextstep, those manufacturers of ibm-pc compatible machines that also relied on the Microsoft operating system, including Compaq, took the initiative to contact Jobs, seek authorization from nextstep, and even said that if Jobs gave up nextstep The hardware business on the system focuses on the software operating system and is willing to pay a higher price."

"Of course, with the help of the tradition of convenient walking with us, Jobs got a lot of inspiration for the design and development of the entire next system, including nextstep."

Having said this, Charles Simeone turned his attention to another participant, Richard Rashid, an important figure in the operating system department of Philosophy, and smiled: "Richard has summarized a lot of this. "

Seeing that his subordinates had done so comprehensively and meticulously, Tang Huan waved his hand very high, "Then Richard will also introduce it."

Richard Rashid lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and spoke unhurriedly: "One of my alumni at Carnegie Mellon University-Abades Tefanian, was killed by Jobs. I dug up the next company to take up an important position, and I learned some more detailed things from him."

"Nextstep borrows our success in api-application program interface, and also designed a set of similar development interfaces internally, and in other aspects, has the same advanced technology implementation. I believe that this is also one of the ibm engineers recognized by nextstep. The big reason."

"In terms of process management, the abstract mechanism of'everything is a file' in Unix has increasingly revealed its shortcomings. In modern multitasking, especially in graphical user interface operating systems, there must be more processes under it. The requirements of individual threads, process concurrency and scheduling, thread sleep or wake-up, etc. require the operating system kernel to have a better message passing mechanism to support."

"As a Unix-like operating system, nextstep has made very commendable progress in this regard."

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Listening to the successive speeches of his subordinates, Tang Huan nodded with satisfaction, and finally said with emotion: "Everyone's vision is still so wide, which makes me very pleased."

"In 1979, we launched the 8-bit generation Fangyuan personal computer. At that time, there were dozens of personal computers like Appleii, and the competition was fierce."

"In 1981, we launched the 16-bit second-generation Fangyuan personal computer, but not long after it gained a foothold in the market, ibm officially entered the personal computer market, and ibm-pc became the most dangerous competitor."

"In 1983, based on the 16-bit architecture, we launched three generations of Fangyuan personal computers that support multi-tasking, which began to be clearly different from those of our peers, and then stood out. The types of personal computers were also violently eliminated. Less."

"In 1985, we launched the 32-bit fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer, which was the first in the industry, and established the leading position of Fangyuan computer technology standards. Even the powerful ibm has begun to be clearly at a disadvantage."

"At the end of last year, in a very good situation, we launched the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer-mmx, and began to formally promote the full popularization of multimedia functions in mainstream applications."

"Why is it not the fifth generation Fangyuan personal computer this time, because we all understand that compared to the substantial innovations of previous generations, this round of product upgrades is mainly a marketing need, rather than a major technological breakthrough. ."

"Everyone, at this stage, the position of Fangyuan Computer Standard in the industry is the undisputed leader, and the advantage is in our hands. It can be said that our biggest opponent is ourselves, but technological progress will not be completely left to us."

"If you really want to do that, then we will be the next ibm. In the era of mainframes, the giant blue dominates, how difficult it is in the current era of microcomputers, even one step away from being split by Wall Street, everyone can see."

"As of now, there is no real income next. How many people have been sought after by innovation alone? Maybe, they can really lead the next wave of technological progress."

"Standing at a high place, even though the scenery is endless, I am even more worried about our big ship. Where is the next clear direction? How far can we sail?"

"Fortunately, the pragmatic work attitude you still maintain has made me feel relieved a lot."

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Listening to the warning words of the big boss, everyone was taught awe-inspiringly. The following regular annual spring developer conference, as well as the press conference and other matters, more and more intensively unfolded.

This afternoon, Tang Huangang came out of the Zheru R&D Center, and while walking towards his office with his hands on his back, he summed up the technical results achieved at this stage in his heart and compared it with the overall road map. Suddenly he heard the assistant remind him from behind: "Boss, Jobs is greeting you."△≧miào.*bi(.*)gé△≧，

Tang Huan looked up and saw Jobs's unhappy look~www.wuxiaspot.com~ quickly laughed, "I'm very sorry, Steve, I just thought about things in my mind and didn't hear you."

Jobs nodded in relief, "Looking at the posture you walked just now, it is no different from those old people. Tang, we are the same age, but you are starting to show old age. Listen to my advice, practice Zen, and take time to meditate every day. Right."

"Nonsense, my body is great, and it's no problem to be a movie action star now." Tang Huan waved his hand quickly, flatly rejected Jobs's sales and bewilderment, and changed the subject: "How is the progress of the next computer development? At the time, you patted your chest to guarantee that the product will be launched this year."

"My nextstep, how popular in ibm, you will not have heard of it. Would the other party believe in a product without a shadow? I came to you this time to talk about the next computer conference." said At this point, Steve Jobs looked sad, "Originally, I planned to announce the purchase of nextstep authorization by IBM until the product was released, so as to give Gates a'surprise', but ibm insisted on disclosing it immediately according to the process. Damn bureaucracy."

"Finally, there is a product launch and it is not easy to see the sales revenue!" Tang Huan joked unscrupulously.

"What's wrong with no income?" Jobs didn't think he smiled. "Tang, let me tell you that Canon recently plans to inject $100 million in next to acquire 16.67% of next. Now, the value of next has changed from 125 million. The U.S. dollar rose to 600 million U.S. dollars."

Tang Huan was taken aback for a moment, and laughed loudly, "With my name and your eloquence, next can really lie everywhere!"