Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

Bao Zixuan held a portable computer development meeting on his first night back at MIT. Now more than two months have passed, and good news finally came from the computer company. The world's first portable computer has been successfully developed and has reached design performance, and is initially in demand for commercialization.

Bao Zixuan came to Heiyun Small Processing Factory, where he had successfully renovated CNC machine tools. Heiyun Computer Company transformed part of this place into a laboratory. Although it is not very professional, it is enough to produce some simple components.

Computers are an absolute high-tech product of this era, but Heiyun Group does not have much technical reserves. The interior of the resulting Black Cloud laptop is essentially purchased off-the-shelf components.

Due to the good cooperative relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it can be said to be of epoch-making significance to obtain the first product of the Intel 808 family in advance.

The Black Cloud portable computer uses the Intel 808 model 1, which is more than one level stronger than the 8-bit processor of the Apple 2 generation computer.

Looking at the portable computer that engineers have just assembled, it can be said that it is the highest achievement of this era in terms of shape and configuration.

Bao Zixuan said to Hashimoto Hiroshi: "Hashimoto-kun, please introduce its performance."

Hashimoto Hiroshi glanced at Bao Zixuan gratefully, feeling very moved in his heart. He played more of a coordinating role in the development process of this computer. The real technical research was done by his team of engineers.

This group has assembled dozens of professional computer talents from MIT, and they are not afraid of any challenge in this world.

Hiroshi Hashimoto: "President, our portable computer is 42 centimeters long and 23 pounds wide."

"The screen is a 12.5-inch color TFT LCD display, and the CPU uses Intel 808 floating budget speed per second, which is 8 times the computing speed of Apple's second generation computer. It uses a 1g hard drive, which can meet all commercial needs."

Bao Zixuan looked at the portable computer and said: "From now on, this computer will be called a laptop. Our computer is like a notebook and can be placed in people's briefcases and can be taken out to work at any time."

"I named this laptop the Vision 1100. This is the first laptop in our Vision series. In the future, we will develop computers with more advanced performance and faster computing speeds based on chip functions."

"I always firmly believe in Moore's Law. When the price remains unchanged, the number of components on an integrated circuit will double in about 18-24 months, and the performance will also double. In other words, every dollar can achieve The performance of the purchased computer will more than double in 18-24 months."

"Now all manufacturers are vigorously developing integrated circuits, perhaps even faster than Moore said. We must seize this opportunity and develop distinctive personal computers as quickly as possible."

Hashimoto Hiroshi said: "Your Excellency, President, now our Black Cloud operating system has been integrated with the laptop, but there are still some problems with the Chinese character input you mentioned."

"We are all European and American engineers here. We have never systematically learned Chinese. We still can't complete the Wubi input method you mentioned last time."

After hearing this, Bao Zixuan remembered the spelling and input issues of Chinese characters. As Hiroshi Hashimoto said, these American engineers cannot understand the breadth and depth of Chinese characters. Chinese is one of the more difficult languages ​​and characters to learn in the world.

The Wubi typing method was invented by Wang Yongmin in his previous life. Now Wang Yongmin has not touched a personal computer. At present, it seems that I can only solve this problem by myself.

Now the computer operating system already exists, and it can reach the 1dows 1.0 level. After all, the window patent has been registered in advance by Heiyun. Moreover, when it comes to system encryption, Bao Zixuan is definitely the most outstanding engineer of this era. He has ideas and technologies that surpass this era for more than 40 years, so he can avoid many detours.

As a Hong Kong enterprise, if the computer cannot use traditional Chinese characters for office work, it will cause unnecessary trouble when cooperating with mainland enterprises after the return.

Bao Zixuan said to Hashimoto Hiroshi: "Leave Wubi typing to me! You don't have to worry about this matter. After all, I am the only engineer here who understands Chinese characters."

They felt relieved when their boss said this. After all, their knowledge of Chinese characters was very limited. Even Hiroshi Hashimoto, a Japanese, only knew most of the Chinese characters and had no idea about the division of kanji.

After leaving the laboratory, Bao Zixuan returned to his office. In these negotiations, Heiyun Group had always suffered losses, which made him realize his own strengths and weaknesses. At least letting professional lawyers negotiate could save a lot of money. It’s better to put more effort into product research and development. Negotiation is really not my strong point.

Bao Zixuan's current task is to complete the writing of Wubi typing software, and he also has to complete two versions at the same time. However, in this era, there were no simplified Chinese dictionaries for sale except in mainland China.

Although I used the five-stroke typing method in my previous life, I don’t know much about the roots of traditional Chinese characters. And if I write the roots of simplified characters now without any reference, it will make people suspicious. Both versions of Wubi typing must have reasonable explanations, otherwise it would be strange if they were not suspected.

Bao Zixuan called Peng Yifei to the office and saw that his boss had never spoken to him so seriously. Peng Yifei was a little confused. After all, they had been together for a long time and knew that Bao Zixuan was not a particularly serious person.

Bao Zixuan didn't want his subordinates to misunderstand. After all, although the task he was asked to do this time was small, it could easily cause misunderstanding among his subordinates.

Bao Zixuan looked at Peng Yifei and said, "Afei, I hope you can help me with something. After all, I don't want too many people to know about this matter at the moment."

Peng Yifei: "Boss, just say it! As long as I can do it."

Bao Zixuan: "It's a small matter, so don't worry too much. You are the person I trust most. After all, the policy is not very clear yet. I hope you can get a few dictionaries of mainland simplified Chinese characters through your connections. I want to write Hanzi software A lot of root words are needed.”

Peng Yifei thought that any primary school student could get this, so why did he become so serious all of a sudden? But then I thought about it, my boss was worried that he would misunderstand me and he didn't trust me, so he used this method to find out whether he still had any contact with the mainland.

Also, if someone finds out what they want to do with a mainland dictionary at this time, it will be taken advantage of by someone who is interested. Now Heiyun Group has become a benchmark enterprise in Hong Kong, and can be said to be the enterprise with the largest number of employees in Hong Kong. As far as he knows, there are currently more than 20,000 workers in the Heiyun Factory in Xiangjiang, and the number is increasing every day.

Bao Zixuan's actions are now not just a personal behavior, but also a matter related to the dynamics of the entire Heiyun Group. If the factory is fully constructed, it will require at least 50,000 employees, accounting for 1% of the population of Xiangjiang. This is a force that no one can ignore. And the production value is even more terrifying.

Peng Yifei is no longer an ordinary driver who only knows how to drive. Being with Bao Zixuan these days has made him mature a lot, and he also understands his boss's worries.

Peng Yifei said solemnly: "Boss, please don't worry, I will go over and get the matter done in person."

Bao Zixuan looked at his expression and knew he could rest assured. Although a few dictionaries looked simple, in a special era it was a big or small event. If someone came online, it would be difficult for him to explain it clearly. It would be ideal to leave it to Peng Yifei to handle it. You can also write Wubi software for traditional Chinese characters first, and the dictionary will be ready already.

Bao Zixuan said to Peng Yifei: "You will fly back to Xiangjiang tomorrow, and then find a way to bring back some simplified Chinese dictionaries. Be careful."