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 it has reached the design performance and initially meets the requirements for commercialization.

Bao Zixuan came to Heiyun Small Processing Factory. Since the success of renovating CNC machine tools here, Heiyun Computer Company has transformed part of this place into a laboratory. Although it is not very professional, it is enough to produce some simple parts.

Computers are an absolute high-tech product of this era, but Heiyun Group does not have much technical reserves. As a result, the interior of Heiyun portable computers is basically purchased ready-made components.

Due to maintaining a good cooperative relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we obtained the Intel 8086 chip in advance. This first product of the x86 family can be said to be of epoch-making significance.

The Black Cloud portable computer uses the Intel 8086 chip. Although it is only a 16-bit processor, it is more than one level better than the 8-bit processor of Apple's second-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 and was very moved. 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: "Your Excellency, President, our portable computer is 42 centimeters long, 26.3 centimeters wide, 3.6 centimeters thick and weighs 2.7 kilograms."

"The screen is a 12.5-inch color TFT LCD display, and the CPU uses an Intel 8086-16 microprocessor. The floating budget speed per second is 8 times the computing speed of Apple's second-generation computer. It uses a 1g hard drive, which can meet all commercial needs

need."

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. It 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 computer you buy 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 in the world to learn.

The five-stroke typing method in the previous life was invented by Wang Yongmin in 1983, but Wang Yongmin has not yet come into contact with a personal computer. At present, it seems that he can only solve this problem himself.

Computer operating systems now exist, and they can reach the level of Microsoft Windows 1.0 in 1985. After all, the Windows patent has been registered in advance by Heiyun. And in terms of system encryption, Bao Zixuan is definitely the most outstanding engineer of this era, and there is no one who can surpass this.

With ideas and technologies that are more than 40 years old, we 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 rb person, only knew most of the Chinese characters, but he couldn't understand the division of kanji at all.

After leaving the laboratory, Bao Zixuan returned to his office. Heiyun Group had always suffered in these negotiations, which made him realize his own advantages and disadvantages. At least letting professional lawyers negotiate can save a lot of money. It is still more in product research and development.

Put in the effort, negotiation is really not your strong point.

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

Although I have used the Wubi 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 without any reference, it will make people suspicious. Both versions of Wubi typing can be used

There must be a reasonable explanation, otherwise it will be strange not to be 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 puzzled. 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 lead to 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 simplified Chinese characters in mainland China through your connections. I want to write Hanzi software

A lot of radicals are needed.”

Peng Yifei thought that any elementary school student could get this. Why was he so serious all of a sudden? But then he thought about it. But then he thought that his boss was worried that he would misunderstand him and did not trust him. He used this method to find out whether he was different from the mainland.

Do you still have contact with me?

Also, being found out about what mainland China dictionaries are doing at this time will make people take advantage of it. Now Heiyun Group has become a benchmark enterprise in Xiangjiang, and can be said to be the company with the most employees in Hong Kong. As far as he knows, Heiyun Group in Xiangjiang is currently

There are already more than 20,000 workers in the factory, and the number is increasing every day.

Bao Zixuan's actions are now not just personal actions, but are 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 something that no one can do

The power of neglect. 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 the 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 special times 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 the 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 try to bring back some simplified Chinese dictionaries. Be careful."

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