Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1894 Windows System
Seeing Duan Yun walk to the conference table, the engineer who was preparing for the meeting hastily stepped forward and respectfully opened the chair for Duan Yun, and put a cup of freshly brewed coffee in front of him.

"I want to personally operate the system you made." After sitting down, Duan Yun said to Yan Zhendong who was standing beside him.

"Bring the computer here." Hearing this, Yan Zhendong pointed to the computer in the office area next to him and said to his subordinates.

The next moment, several staff members disassembled a computer in the office area, quickly installed it in front of Duan Yun's computer desk, and connected it to the power supply.

At present, the computers used in the laboratory are basically replaced by the computers produced by Tianyin Group. This set of Tianyin computers based on the Intel 80486 chip core can be said to be the first 486 computer in China.

In fact, in the early years, Duan Yun also thought about being able to develop and produce his own domestic CPU chips, but there were two major hurdles that he could not break through. One was technical. He said that although chip technology has reached the forefront of the world, second only to the United States and Japan, it still cannot stand at the top of chip research and development, especially with the United States, there is still a gap of at least five years. Even if Duan Yun has the foresight, It is also impossible to greatly break through Moore's Law in a short period of time, which means that it will take at least five years or even longer to complete the catch-up.

In addition, although Tianyin Group has recruited a lot of talents in the chip industry over the years, and has set up related R&D centers in Hong Kong, Europe and the United States, in general, if it wants to wrestle with a company like Intel, Duan Yun is still There is a long way to go, whether in terms of size, scale, technology accumulation or the number of senior R&D talents, Tianyin Group is at an absolute disadvantage, and it is difficult to rank among the top five in the world, let alone in the chip industry Intel Corporation at the top of the pyramid.

And the last point is that Duan Yun also has certain scruples about developing CPU chips, because the chip industry has always been a high-tech industry protected by the United States. If Duan Yun wants to touch the American cake, he must pay a huge risk, let alone him. , Even at the national level, by the early 90s, the national power of China and the United States was very different, especially the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the just-concluded Iraq War, which turned the world into a unipolar world dominated by billions , if the United States exerts pressure, it will be difficult for China to fight back. This sounds a bit depressing, but it is a helpless fact.

If the U.S. government feels that its high-definition technology is threatened, they will not hesitate to resort to various means, such as political isolation, technological blockade, and military suppression. It is completely foreseeable that Tianyin Group's overseas development path can be blocked.

China is currently following a development policy of keeping a low profile. As a Chinese company, Tianyin Group must also maintain a low-key development. Although Duan Yun can compete with Japanese and Korean manufacturers for the storage chip market, but for the development and production of CPU processors, it must be confident. Be cautious.

And now, whether it is Duan Yun's Tianyin Group or the Chinese government, they all hope to suddenly the United States, the world's largest market, and before the company has developed to a certain scale, Duan Yun will not touch the American cake easily.

However, despite this, Duan Yun did not completely give up the development of CPU chips, but this kind of research and development stays in the design aspect. The current project is in charge of Huang Lingyi. The current development progress is relatively primitive and still on paper. It is only used to cultivate the team and accumulate technology. In a short period of time, the CPU will not be regarded as a key research and development project.

The chip industry is a comprehensive industry that pays great attention to the accumulation of technology. When the software and hardware meet the standards at the same time, the development of the CPU will become a matter of course. Judging from the current situation, Tianyin Group's chip production line has basically achieved localization. Duan Yun He intends to consider the development of the CPU only after the Tianyin chip has gained a firm foothold in the international market.

This is definitely not an easy task. Even Intel, which is currently at the top of the world's chip industry, cannot be at the top of the entire chip industry. It was precisely because of the strong competition from the Japanese chip industry that he had to cut himself Arm, gave up the production and research and development of storage chips, and concentrated all its technical strength on the research and development of CPUs. This has secured its position as the dominant CPU chip in the world today.

After the computer started, the Windows startup screen that Duan Yun was familiar with did not appear on the screen, but a silver logo of Tianyin Group flashed slowly against the black background, and then entered a desktop with Tiananmen in the background. interface.

This start-up screen and desktop background made Duan Yun feel somewhat bright, and it was indeed a little creative, but judging from the functions of the desktop icons, it was completely copied from the Windows 3.0 system.

As any technicians, they actually disdain imitation and plagiarism, and the reason why the desktop system functions are so similar to Microsoft Windows system is mainly because of Duan Yun's request.

In fact, Duan Yun also tended to be original, but due to various considerations, Duan Yun finally decided to let the R&D team use the windows 3.0 system as a reference prototype to develop a similar domestic system.

Windows 3.0 was released on May 1990, 5. Windows 22 was released. Due to the huge improvements in interface, humanization, and memory management, it finally won the recognition of users.

After that, Microsoft struck while the iron was hot, and released the multilingual version of Windows 1991 in October 10, which played a major role in the promotion of Windows in non-English-speaking countries.

For the vast majority of Chinese people in the 90s, they had no awareness of purchasing genuine software at all, so the Microsoft Windows systems that entered China at that time were basically all pirated versions, and almost no company or unit had spent money to purchase genuine Windows software. .

And Microsoft's Bill Gates seems to take special care of Chinese users. He has never used the patent law to sue any Chinese company or user. It was not until 1995 that Microsoft established its first branch in China. Before that, he had never sold genuine Windows system software to China.

Even for Chinese piracy, Windows adheres to a tacit and laissez-faire attitude, and it is precisely because of Microsoft's attitude that the Windows system quickly became popular in mainland China and became the must-have operating system for most Chinese computer users in that era. .

Therefore, considering that the current government and enterprise departments are all using Microsoft Windows system, microcomputer operators and office workers are already very familiar with this system. The operation page is also very necessary...

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