Video Game Empire

With the development of semiconductor technology, the performance of microcomputers is also changing with each passing day, and workstation computers will soon replace the status of small computers in the next ten years.

Since IBM will soon make an open technology standard, the future personal computer market will become a completely transparent free competition market, and with the fierce competition, the profit rate will continue to decline.

Therefore, in Li Xuan's plan, Aikang's research and development focus in the field of personal computers will gradually shift to the development of mobile computers, that is, notebook computers. Because in this field, no company will learn from IBM to fully open its own standards. So, you've never heard of a consumer who can assemble a laptop by himself.

In contrast, the more expensive workstation computer market is much more profitable, and this is the field that Aikang Computer will focus on in the future. And Dongfang Electronics laid out in advance and cooperated with Stanford University to develop a commercial processor based on the MIPS architecture. Li Xuan's goal is the future workstation market.

After Li Xuan replied to Professor Hennessy's email, he began to eat rock candy bird's nest at the urging of Zhong Chuhong.

"You put so much effort into connecting this computer at home to the Internet, what else can you do other than send and receive emails?" Zhong Chuhong asked curiously. He has been with Li Xuan for a long time, and he has become more familiar with computers. learn.

Li Xuan, a techie, is different from what other rich people play. Other Hong Kong rich people buy famous cars and yachts, and they can drop millions for a special license plate, but Li Xuan doesn't care about these at all. In order to allow the Li family's villa on the Peak to be connected to the Internet, he specially asked the Hong Kong Telephone Company to pull an optical fiber line, and he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for this without even batting an eyebrow.

In fact, the fact that Dongfang Laboratory was connected to the ARPANET caused a lot of controversy within Dongfang Electronics. Because the current ARPANET is not very mature, Li Xuan's reason for facilitating communication between the company's R&D centers around the world has also been refuted, because fax can completely replace immature e-mail, but Li Xuan Xuan still acted arbitrarily and decided to connect to the ARPANET.

The Hong Kong Telephone Company has not yet begun to lay optical fibers in Hong Kong. Dongfang Electronics has tried it for a while. Not only has the optical fiber line been established between the headquarters and the laboratory of Dongfang Electronics, it has also funded the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University and the Polytechnic Institute. And use fiber optic networking. In addition, there is no submarine cable in this era. If the nodes of Dongfang Laboratory want to connect to the ARPANET in the United States, they must be transmitted through satellites, which is another huge expense.

Therefore, in order to complete the entire project, Li Xuan invested 2 million US dollars in one go, equivalent to 10 million Hong Kong dollars. Such a large price is enough for him to buy another villa in Taiping Mountain. Moreover, the maintenance fee for the entire networking system will cost millions of Hong Kong dollars every year. It can only be said that the local tyrant plays too high-end, which makes those rich people who buy luxury cars and luxury homes feel uneasy.

"Of course I can do other things, I'll show you something fun!" Li Xuan said with a smile, and after speaking, he kept tapping on the keyboard with both hands, typing in various commands, "Let's see how the world doesn't sit together. How do people play games together!"

Li Xuan quickly controlled the computer to log in to an electronic bulletin board system. Yes, it was an electronic bulletin board. It has a more widely known name called BBS. The most popular Chinese BBS forum was in the 1990s, but it actually appeared in Chicago in 1978 and was invented by two computer enthusiasts. Later, they introduced their invention in Bit magazine, and the electronic bulletin board system became popular in the United States in the late seventies.

Since Li Xuan connected the University of Hong Kong, CUHK and the Polytechnic, he simply created a BBS forum that almost every domestic university has in later generations. Of course, he didn't have time to do it himself. Instead, he solicited design proposals from the students of the three schools in the name of Dongfang Laboratory.

Finally, under the auspices of the Oriental Lab, it took more than two months to synthesize many excellent solutions of the students majoring in electronic computing from the three universities. A forum named Oriental Pearl was finally established, and the server of the forum was placed on The computer room of the Eastern Laboratory.

From the launch of the Oriental Pearl Forum to the present, the total number of registrations has exceeded 500. Almost all students and teachers of all relevant majors in the three schools, as well as researchers from most of the Oriental Electronics companies, have registered their own accounts on the forum.

The content on the forum is not rich, and most of the topics are discussions on various technologies. Not long ago, there was another very interesting thing on the forum, but it attracted everyone's ideas. This is something called MUD created by several middle school students. The full name is MultipleUserDialogue, which is translated into Chinese as a multi-person dialogue system.

Of course, having said so much, many people may still be confused. In fact, it is the earliest online game, or more precisely, the earliest text online game. This thing has appeared in foreign countries as early as last year. Li Xuan also didn't know where these CUHK students got the relevant technical materials. They built a "quagmire" with martial arts as the background relying on the Pearl of the Orient Forum.

In his previous life, when Li Xuan was in college, this kind of text-based online games had long since disappeared. He had only heard of some legends. For example, there was a very popular game at Peking University called "Peking Daxia Xing Xing". Of course, it is not easy for ordinary people to play this thing, at least you need to have some programming knowledge, because this kind of MUD game is all played by inputting commands.

Li Xuan took out a piece of paper from the drawer with dozens of command codes written on it. This was just obtained by Li Xuan a few days ago. The game is still in the development stage. He has only tried it twice before. Although there are no gorgeous graphics and various dazzling skills, but wandering in the lines of text, there are also A different kind of fun.

I saw Li Xuan input a line of commands, and a line of text immediately appeared on the screen: "The moonlight is like water, you are sitting and breathing by the lake, the family's internal energy and mental methods are running a big circle, and suddenly a breath of turbid air is protruded, and you feel relieved. Cool (experience +100)…”

Li Xuan typed in another command, and another line of text appeared on the screen: "You lightly tap your feet, use a move to climb the cloud ladder, and immediately climb the branch of a century-old camphor tree..."

"It's interesting!" Li Xuan turned his head and smiled at his girlfriend.

"Yeah! Someone attacked you!" Zhong Chuhong suddenly pointed at the screen and said softly.

Li Xuan immediately turned his head and saw an extra line of text on the screen: "You were ruthlessly attacked by the masked swordsman Sima who had been hiding in the tree, and his ice-cold lightsaber pierced your chest, causing you to bleed (-100 blood volume)…”

Before Li Xuan could enter the order to counterattack, a line of text appeared again in a flash on the screen: "Sima Wuqing waved the sword in his hand mercilessly again, and stabbed a pair in your left chest, and you were seriously injured. You show a grim smile... (-150 HP

Well, UU reading www.uukanshu.com Li Xuan hasn't reacted yet. His first online PK has ended. The character he controlled, "Jianghu Xiaoxiaosheng" died of excessive blood loss. Of course, the main reason for this is that Sima Ruqing, who attacked him, was level 5, while his Jianghu Xiaoxiaosheng was only level 2, and his HP was only 300. Li Xuan knelt down after the opponent's three swords.

"You are so useless!" Zhong Chuhong said with a chuckle, which made Li Xuan quite embarrassed. He decided to find someone to help him improve his level. Next time, he must seek revenge from this Sima who is ignorant.

"But it looks interesting!" Zhong Chuhong said again.

"Want to play? I'll teach you!"

"Is it difficult? I don't understand computers!" Zhong Chuhong said hesitantly.

"It's not difficult to meet people!"

So all afternoon, Li Xuan sat in front of the computer with Zhong Chuhong, telling her how to enter various commands.

In fact, whether it is the Pearl of the Orient BBS forum or the MUD text online game that is still being tested, they have not seen their profit prospects for a long time. But Li Xuan was still happy and willing to invest money to support him. Because he knows that everything now is laying the foundation for the future, and the lake, which was originally calm, has become a little turbulent under his influence, and one day it will make the tide surge.

In fact, Li Xuan's influence is not only in the Internet and computers. According to the latest survey of Dongfang Electronics, in recent months, six new small companies developing arcade games have appeared in Hong Kong.

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