Rebirth of the Tech Madman

"Boy, you are not my opponent. Apple computers are out of date." Although Don Estelitch is not as popular as Jobs, he is more condensed in momentum and can also choke people to death in one sentence.

"Let's see." Jobs rarely did not spray, and turned away.

Perhaps, in the mind of Jobs, a quasi-32-bit microprocessor will come out next year as planned. By that time, with the graphical user interface, it can crush all opponents without wasting saliva here.

In other words, my loneliness and arrogance are not something you fools can understand.

Don’t know that Don Estelich, who was strongly despised by Jobs and thought he had run away from his opponent, laughed and looked at Tang Huan, “How about my ibm-?”

"Jobs is right. It's quite satisfactory. There are no bright spots." Tang Huan smiled slightly, and he glanced at the visitors who were playing the small game on ibm-, "but he took all the needs into consideration as much as possible, and I can only say You stand on the shoulders of companies such as Apple, Dondi, and Kang Maoda.

"Why didn't you stand on the shoulders of Fangyuan Computer? Do you feel that you are the most special one?" Don Estelich asked slightly intentionally.

"Because my Fangyuan computer came out late, you have no time to plagiarize." Tang Huan laughed happily when he looked at Don Estelitch's dark face.

"I have to say that Jobs' arrogance is superficial, and you are hidden in the bones, but it is even more annoying." Don Estelic snorted.

"At the moment it seems. The cheap personal computer you claim. The lowest price is also hovering between 1,500 and 2,000 US dollars. And it is still the kind of model that only matches b memory, but it can do under 1,500 US dollars." Tang Huanhui eyes Ru torch calculated the cost, further hitting the other party, "Don't you know, b memory is really **** for the current commercial software."

Facing Don Estelitch’s annoyed eyes, Tang Huan continued to say leisurely: "When you develop a memory card and plug it into the expansion slot, the cost will naturally rise. Dude. Your cheap computer. The gimmick is a lie."

"Tang, you must have not seen the powerful manufacturing capabilities of ibm. When the market is full of ibm-figures in two months, you will not be so confident." Don Estelich is cold. With a cold smile, "You seem to be with the guests, so I won't be far away."

"Okay, I'll wait and see. By the way, I will hold the annual developer conference. Welcome to come by then." Tang Huan smiled faintly, and Shi Shiran left.

After leaving the ibm booth. Tang Huan's face slowly cooled.

He knows that there is a cruel reality that cannot be ignored. IBM, which has been working in the industry for decades, is jealous and disgusted by its rights and wealth, but customers respect and like its quality and strength, in the concept of ordinary people. , Ibm and computer are almost equivalent.

Therefore, as soon as the ibm computer came out, there were bound to be gathered, which is the strong appeal of the brand.

And the personal computer department headed by Don Estelich is not restricted by ibm's existing operating rules at all, that is to say, he can put down his figure and do all kinds of things.

The West Coast Computer Festival has always been a paradise for amateur personal computer enthusiasts, but ibm, which is advertised as a professional and high-end, has appeared here, which is the best proof.

When he returned to the side of Prince Sabah, Tang Huan found that the other party had bought an Osborne-generation machine as a toy to play with.

"Tang, why don't you develop such a computer that can be moved at will?" Prince Sabah asked inexplicably, "In my impression, any dynamics and business opportunities in this market will not slip away in front of your eyes. "

"This kind of portability is very limited. It is more like a concept product. Let others test the water first. When I have accumulated technical reserves, I can launch more mobile products at any time." Tang Huan explained patiently.

Prince Sabah was also busy with his business. After watching the excitement of the West Coast Computer Festival, he left for New York on the east coast of the United States, leaving a fund account with a negotiated amount and a hot potato that could be handled casually—— MGM.

Tang Huan pulled Gates aside who was talking to Adam Osborne, "Since ibm-has been released, let me give me a prototype of ibm to Microsoft."

"You don't need to be so anxious, order from ibm, and they will ship it soon. Maybe the ibm- in the mall has been put on the shelf." Gates wanted to sloppy.

"Don't worry about other things." Tang Huan was a little impatient, "rest assured, I am not interested in the ibm- operating system, just do a software transplant earlier."

"Well, I'll give you one." Gates couldn't resist the pressure and could only agree, but he said unwillingly: "ibm-is the second-generation Fangyuan computer's biggest competitor, why should you provide software support for it? What?"

There are many doorways here, but I can't tell you, lest you get stolen from the teacher so quickly, Tang Huan beat him haha, just didn't explain the reason positively.

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Zheru's annual developer conference was held at the San Francisco Municipal Auditorium of Deng Lijun's second round of North American tour in San Francisco last year. It lasted for two days and the number of participants reached thousands.

Tang Huan was naturally the protagonist, and he started to give a keynote speech, but it was not him who appeared first, but the 13-year-old Celine Dion, who sang a cappella in French.

Little Lori released her first album "" this year. This song is the main song in the album and became the local champion song. According to market reaction, it can be inferred that the record sales should reach 40,000.

It is no exaggeration to say that Celine Dion has become a star in Quebec, and the potential of the French pop queen in the future is evident.

Take advantage of this little Lolita to learn singing skills. Tang Huan asked her to cooperate with the activity. It is also good to exercise the ability to deal with big scenes. There are thousands of people sitting next to each other, which is a rare opportunity.

As people grow older, people's voices inevitably change.

Deng Lijun's voice in the song and dance film "Miss Fan", which she starred in at the age of 17, is different from now.

The same 17-year-old Zhang Delan performed the theme song "Flowers and Full Moon Tower" in the TVB TV series "Lu Xiaofeng's Mystery of the Golden Peng", which is also slightly different from the present.

The voice of this age group has the natural nature of bead and jade plate, and the current Celine Dion is in such a state.

When Xiao Lori finished singing, Tang Huan came to the stage amidst applause. He smiled and said: "So many people applaud, you have to send a signature to express your gratitude."

"As much as you want." Celine smiled mischievously, and walked to the table. On it was placed the second-generation Fangyuan computer of the most high-end model and a laser printer independently developed by Zheru. Little Lori used the mouse to operate skillfully. With word processing software.

At present, Zheru's large-scale software has been graphically implemented on its second-generation Fangyuan computer platform, which is very easy for users to use.

Soon, the laser printer followed Celine's request. A stack of copies was printed.

"This is my signature. How much is it? How much." Celine pointed with a hand triumphantly.

"Thank you for giving it to everyone in the audience to see if they are satisfied." Tang Huan smiled and waved his hand.

Celine quickly agreed, distributed the printed copies to everyone, and then left the scene.

Seeing this scene, the participants were puzzled at first, but after seeing the very distinctive text content printed out, they were surprised and quickly understood that this is a new technology that will be introduced today.

Tang Huan was in a very happy mood, because after so long technical preparations, a new application field—desktop publishing, or dtp, could finally be launched.

It can be said that with this technical means and the Chinese characters that have been informatized through Chinese cards, the Chinese language culture can also take advantage of the convenience of English in terms of publishing and printing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the first new technology I will introduce is about computer fonts and glyphs, called opentype." Tang Huan took a printed copy left by Celine and showed it, "Everyone sees it, The writing style above is different from what you usually see. It has a little more personality, just like a unique calligraphy when you write your pen. Opentype can provide such an artistic creation platform, and it also has an inherent mechanism of copyright protection."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan pointed to computer monitors and laser printers, "opentype can also achieve the device independence of text output effects, that is, the display effect is still the same after changing to another monitor and printer."

In addition to the three concepts of inner code, outer code, and exchange code in the process of informationization, text also involves the concept of glyph code in how to display it. Opentype can be understood as a tool for managing opentype.

In the original time and space, just like desktop publishing is not understood by ordinary users, fonts are also accustomed to being ignored, but they do not know the hidden profits and the several market competitions that Apple and Microsoft have conducted for it.

After introducing opentype, Tang Huan began to introduce the second technology, which belongs to a page description language and programming language.

The display of the text content on the computer monitor is temporary, and after being output by the printer, it is even a permanent preservation.

For a long time, many technologies have been used to help printers print characters—usually characters—but most of them have one thing in common, that is, the characters are difficult to change physically, such as the metal or optics on the typewriter keys. Strips like flat plates.

In other words, in batch output, it is almost impossible to personalize fonts and flexible typesetting styles.

But with the popularity of dot matrix printers, the situation began to change.

Because on these systems, characters are "drawn" with a series of dots, and these dots are defined as fonts.

Obviously, the font library provides storage space for the fonts managed by opentype.

At the same time, dot matrix printers also have the ability to print bitmaps.

Each printer achieves text and graphics output. The methods vary. After all, manufacturers are now engaged in the development and production of printers. Xerox, HP, and Epson are not the only ones.

Therefore, the programmer has to create a lot of drivers to use the control language of various printers to print. As a result, the workload is really unimaginable.

Unless you use another special device-plotter for output, because it shares a common language-hpgl, but its main function is to print graphics, and it is expensive. The speed is slow and lacks the foundation for universal use.

It is to solve the chaotic situation caused by different printers in the output implementation mode. It is like a public agreement, as long as the computer sends it, whether it is a laser printer or a dot matrix printer, it has not even reached maturity. Commercial inkjet printers can all perform the same output.

After Tang Huan finished explaining the main points in general, he invited an expert in this field-John Warnock.

In the original time and space, the idea of ​​language originated from the idea of ​​John Warnock when he was at the computer graphics company evansandsutherland in 1976.

then. John Warnock is developing an interpreter for the large-scale 3D graphics database of New York Harbor. Eventually, he designed a language very similar to a programming language to process graphics.

In 1978. The evansandsutherland company asked John Warnock to leave the San Francisco Bay and work at the Utah headquarters, but the man did not want to move there. So he turned to join Xerox.

Xerox, who developed the world’s first laser printer, is trying to find a standard page control language for its laser printer. John Warnock has a place to use it and works with Martin Newell. .

They rewrote and developed the jam system, which later developed into an extended system called interpress.

Following the development of history, in December 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left together to create a well-known company.

However, in this time and space, Tang Huan paid special attention to the printer from the beginning. When the Epson printer reached 16 pins, it was equipped with a supporting chip that can be understood and executed. The development of this technology is much faster than there.

Respected as the "cradle", not only his own people ran out to start a business, but other companies also looked at them to dig in. Tang Huan would naturally not be polite.

Jobs only stared at talents related to graphical user interface technology, but Tang Huan knew that the valuable things in it were by no means limited to this, and laser printers and John Warnock were just one of the many digging results.

After pushing John Warnock onto the stage, Tang Huan thought with a smile that it was time to set up. This is another gold-sucking monster.

While introducing John Warnock, he introduced pagemaker, the core desktop publishing software developed by Zheru.

According to the historical trajectory, this tool will be released by aldus in 1985.

In order to implement the desktop publishing system, pagemaker was naturally developed by Tang Huan in advance, and this is the first one, and other supporting software will follow up later.

In the original time and space, Apple, which swept Jobs out of the door, could not survive only with outdated hardware and the so-called graphical user interface, so it also embarked on the path of opening up a new field-the desktop publishing system. This application is completely It can be called an industrial revolution, and it also allowed Apple to survive ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ until the 1990s.

At that time, Apple launched its own laser printer, and then cooperated with aldus' desktop publishing software pagemaker, to form the 3a alliance, which gave birth to a new industry desktop publishing system.

"At present, it seems that the lowest price of the cheap personal computer you claim is also hovering between 1,500 and 2,000 US dollars, and it is still the kind of model that only matches b memory, but it can do under 1,500 US dollars. Ru torch calculated the cost, further hitting the other party, "Don't you know, b memory is really **** for current commercial software."

Facing Don Estelitch’s annoyed eyes, Tang Huan continued to say leisurely: "When you develop a memory card and plug it into the expansion slot, the cost will naturally rise. Dude, your cheap computer The gimmick is a lie."

"Tang, you must have not seen the powerful manufacturing capabilities of ibm. When the market is full of ibm-figures in two months, you will not be so confident." Don Estelich is cold. With a cold smile, "You seem to be with the guests, so I will not be far away." (To be continued...)

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