Chapter 901: Let's wait and see

The Third Research Institute of "Matrix" Joint Laboratory has another name called "Computer Algorithm Research Institute."
Of course, the research institute is headed by Professor Yao Qizhi, deputy director of the laboratory, as the dean, because in Professor Yao’s research field, the research on computer algorithms occupies a very important position, and algorithms are the foundation of all programs.
The current main personnel of the research institute are drawn from the system developers of SGI Company. This is also the agreement reached between Tan Zhenhua and Jim Clark-SGI Company will no longer carry out the development of BSDUnix operating system in the future, and will have been conducting it for some time. Obtained the first internal test version of the secondary development results and transferred all the source code of the IRIX operating system to the "Computer Algorithm Research Institute" for improvement and further development. In terms of software, SGI will only focus on hardware drivers and special applications in the future. Development of interface programs.
In this way, SGI is equivalent to a weight loss. After it does not need to develop its own operating system, the company will focus more on improving the hardware performance of graphics workstations, and it will also greatly reduce personnel costs.
Of course, Professor Yao’s research is more theoretical. Therefore, in order to implement the new operating system plan, Tan Zhenhua asked another person to be responsible for the implementation of this project.
This person is S. McGregor and he is only 28 years old this year. When Tan Zhenhua commissioned Rowling to find him, the young man had just lost his job and was drunk all day long.
However, Tan Zhenhua only aroused his fighting spirit with a simple sentence. He said: "Mike, I will give you a chance to defeat Bill Gates and prove his vision and decision are wrong. , Are you coming or not?"
Therefore, this drunken young man followed Tan Zhenhua to the "Matrix" without saying a word, and didn't even ask about his salary - of course Tan Zhenhua would not treat him badly.
Some classmates must be asking, does this McGregor have so much resentment for Mao's "world's richest man", the founder of Microsoft, and the myth and role model of the IT industry in the future?
Of course it’s because the guy was just swept out by Microsoft!
McGregor is not a simple young man. He is well-known. Before coming to Microsoft, he worked at the famous PARC and Palo Alto Research Center.
Palo Alto Research Center, affiliated to Xerox, is located on the hillside behind Stanford University. It was established in 1970. Here, many genius ideas and inventions were born, such as personal computers, laser printers, mice, and Ethernet ; Graphical user interface, page description language Interpress (the pioneer of PostScript), icons and drop-down menus, WYSIWYG text editor, voice compression technology...
The favorite thing Jobs and Bill Gates did was "visit the Palo Alto Research Center." However, these two eccentric people brought and shovel when they visited...
For example, Mr. Jobs poached a large number of people from the Palo Alto Research Center. It was this group of people who brought to Apple the graphical user interface technology, icons and drop-down menus, and the most critical device-the mouse.
So on January 24 this year, Apple launched the epoch-making personal computer product "Macintosh" and brought the graphical user interface GUI to the public for the first time.
This uses the mouse as an indicator tool, and can perform "double-click", "drag and drop" operations, and has a "what you see is what you get" word processing system and image modification software, and a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive as the standard Macintosh computer Once listed, it immediately detonated the market, triggering a frenzied buying boom!
This, of course, made the personal computer overlord IBM feel tremendous pressure at this time.
IBM is angry, and it is of course its operating system supplier-Microsoft that bears the anger of "Giant Blue".
Because the operating system Microsoft provided to IBM at this time still requires MS-DOS for line-by-line input.
In fact, Mr. Bill Gates had already seen the graphical user interface from the Palo Alto Research Center, and he was aware of the huge impact of this interface on the future, but he was slow to start, and most of the people were caught by Jobs. The land has been taken away!
Fortunately, there is still a fish that slipped through the net, which is our young Mr. McGregor.
Under the kind invitation of Bill Gates, McGregor also happily switched to Microsoft and began to write code for the company's first graphics operating system-Windows 1.0.
Then Mr. Gates did something that made him and everyone in the company stunned. On November 10, 1983, Microsoft held the first press conference for "Windows 1.0". Gates promised that the following year At the beginning of the year, the system was ready for users to use.
But boss, this code has just written the beginning...
The time is tight and the task is heavy. It’s a big deal. Don’t sleep. Let’s do it... Then McGregor discovered a sad problem-according to IBM’s requirements, the new system must be compatible with the previous generation of IBM computers, that is, use For the Intel 8088CPU, McGregor can only shout in his heart: "Your Majesty, the concubines really can't do it!"
The processor speed is too low and the memory capacity is too small, which is far from enough to meet the overhead required by the "window" system. If you use conventional methods to display graphics, it will make people feel too slow, so new algorithms must be studied. In addition, This software contains so much content, involves a wide range, and has a high degree of complexity, which is unmatched by DOS...
As a result, the release time of "Windows 1.0" was delayed from February 1984 to May, and from May to August...so that Mr. Bill Gates did not know how he would face the manufacturers of personal computers. And reporters, and this operating system also got the nickname "Vaporware" and "Soap Bubble Software"...
At this time, a brave and fearless "back pot man" is needed.
Look horizontally and vertically, look left, look right, look up, look down, is there anyone in the company who is more suitable than the project leader, Mr. McGregor, who is taller, shorter, shorter and thinner?
As a result, Mr. McGregor, who had just arrived at Microsoft, was unemployed. He was replaced by Gates’ Harvard classmate Steve Ballmer, who later became the CEO of Microsoft.
As soon as Ballmer came to power, Bill Gates gave him a reassurance. He learned the lessons he had learned before and decided not to meet the deadline anymore, and postponed the release of the new system to May 1985. In spite of IBM's objections, the system installation standard was raised to 80286CPU and 1MB memory under tremendous pressure.
Hearing all this, McGregor suddenly felt the boundless anger!
Is it fun to play with people like this?
Microsoft, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, let's take a look!