Riding the wind of rebirth

In fact, the ammunition has become sufficient. With the successful launch of Microsoft's WindowsNT, it announced the official arrival of the Internet era, which led to the crazy rise of stocks.

Especially this time, WindowsNT also adopts UNICODE as the standard, integrates GB18030 in mainland China, HKSCS in Hong Kong Island and BIG5 in Taiwan Island, leaving a huge room for expansion, and solves the fundamental problem of character applications once and for all.

This application is advanced, because in today's expensive system storage unit, Windows NT needs a large storage space to load the Han font library, and it also takes up 2M more memory when running, and the system with a lower configuration will experience freezes.

People in later generations may find it very funny, but for a computer with only 16M of memory, the difficulty is indeed very real.

This problem is actually easy to solve. According to Zhou Zhi’s suggestion, the Hanwen large font library first accommodates all the Chinese characters in the first phase of the font library under the same coding rules, and then packages them into three packages, the so-called "mainland version". The "Hong Kong version" and "Taiwan version" are for users to choose independently, and they can install all or part of them.

In the future, with the improvement of storage device performance and price reduction, storage space will no longer be the bottleneck restricting software development, and then the three will be integrated, and it will be enough to directly install the Hanwen large font library.

This is a huge change in thinking, from first solving whether there is any problem, and then working on patching up one by one, to first putting forward an overall plan from a high-level view, and then making some deletions and adjustments based on the actual situation. When the time is right in the future, these can be integrated Cutting, tweaking, and complementing as a whole is the perfect solution.

Therefore, Microsoft's stock price has risen more than in the previous life, and its important partner IBM has also become a relevant beneficiary.

And Zhou Zhi and Li Laosan, who started the layout two years in advance, have completely ushered in the feast of the IT era.

With a large amount of capital to make a profit, there are many ways to operate.

There are many softwares in later generations, but those who Zhou Zhi can know the names are actually survivors after the big waves washed away the sand.

For example, Oracle's ORACLE database, Adobe, which developed the famous image processing software Photoshop, and Quantum Information Data Corporation, the predecessor of AOL.

Many companies are still just small workshops and small studios. When Photoshop first came out, it was just a software developed by the Knoll brothers and handed over to scanner companies for distribution and distribution.

This thing requires a fundamental change in the printing industry, that is, after the birth of the two revolutionary printing technologies of "electronic typesetting" and "printing color separation", PS has become a necessary and efficient weapon for the emerging industry - "desktop printing". .

Zhou Zhi asked Li Laosan to look for such companies all over the world. Many of these companies are facing financial difficulties, but they don't need much. Usually, they can be fully revitalized for three to five million dollars.

This is the case for the Noel brothers. When they were desperate, they suddenly received support. AXA Fund provided 50 dollars to allow the Noel brothers to develop the CMYK function of PS.

CMYK is four color separation technology.Color printing, in fact, mainly uses four colors, and four printings are superimposed.

Zhou Zhi asked the Noel Brothers to develop this function, which is to automatically recognize and decompose a color photo into four monochrome pictures, and then send each picture to an inkjet printer. After four times of inkjet printing, a picture can be obtained. Color print.

After the successful development of this technology, PS has welded its king status in image processing.

The Nuoer brothers were grateful and called Li Laosan an "angel investor". As a result, by accident, the AXA Fund represented by Li Laosan became a well-known "angel fund" in the industry.

When Zhou Zhi heard about this, he couldn't help but laugh. Angel investment, this is how it came about in this life?

Because of their extremely accurate investment vision, the assets of the two have grown by leaps and bounds, and they searched the world vigorously, giving Zhou Zhi some confidence when facing Lin Wanqiu from Haitong Auction House.

The uncle and the third lady certainly don't know how great a career they have done together in the outside world. Hearing what Zhou Zhi said, the uncle laughed and said: "When the ancient benevolent people talked about their careers, they were repairing Qi Zhiping. Pattern, I should toast you."

After speaking, he picked up the wine: "Xiao Li, Elbow, let's go together."

This glass of wine is very meaningful, which means that the old Xu family has officially accepted this son-in-law.

After drinking this glass of wine, Youngest Li smiled and said, "Originally, father should also come to visit the second elder this time, but he is too busy in the capital, but both the elder brother and the second elder brother will come to Shudu, and we will come to visit again at that time."

"My father-in-law must be very busy. Anyway, we will meet sooner or later, so we don't need to care about these customs." The uncle was very happy: "Your elder brother and second brother are both promising young people. It is of course good to meet them. What are they doing when they come to Shu?" On business?"

"Brother came to Shuda on behalf of the UNICODE organization to discuss in-depth cooperation." Li Laosan took a look at Zhou Zhi: "Although the news is very popular now, and the Hanwen large font library is bundled into WINNT, it seems that the elbow is still very dissatisfied. ?”

"It's not dissatisfaction, but the first phase of Hanwen's font library can only be regarded as the completion of the most basic work, and there are still many things to do in the future." Zhou Zhi explained: "First of all, the font library is just a tool. With this tool, there are countless The application scenario matches it."

"Secondly, this tool cannot be said to be perfect at present, and only 36952 Chinese characters have been collected, which is far from meeting the requirements of the publishing industry and the collation of ancient books."

"It's already remarkable." Uncle said: "As far as I know, Jingyang Municipal Party Committee Office, Culture and History Office, Archives, and Jingyang Newspaper have all made reports and changed the system. The picture is this font library."

"There is also the Civil Affairs Bureau." Miss San added.

Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Actually, there are also banks and post offices. These are big users of the system, but their systems are mainly UNIX systems. Fortunately, we made this font compatible with Windows, UNIX, and Apple's three major systems from the beginning. In addition, There are also communication industries such as paging stations, Hanxian pagers, etc., which have all been put into use."

"This is a great thing that benefits the country and the people." The uncle laughed.

"But there is still a lot of follow-up work, and we also need Brother Li's guidance." Zhou Zhi said.

"Second brother is here to look for cooperation opportunities." Li Laosan continued after introducing the purpose of the eldest brother: "The Heheng Supermarket we opened in Shudu has achieved amazing results. The turnover in the latest quarter has exceeded the Hong Kong Island headquarters. And the momentum is unabated. So my father asked my second brother to come and visit."

"This is mainly due to the latest POS system." Zhou Zhi said: "The most efficient equipment to improve the settlement speed is the barcode printing and scanning system."

"How do you even know this?" Uncle felt that the child was too evil.

Li Laosan said with a smile: "This is elbow's original idea. In fact, the barcode was invented very early. Although there was no automatic identification function at that time, it has been widely used as a manual identification mark for commodities."

"The use of the automatic identification scanner was invented in [-], and it has been used very maturely. Its inventor, Wu Deland, won the National Science and Technology Award from the United States last year."

"Although Wudlander licenses the patent to everyone for free use just like Hanwen, the bar code we use is different from the original bar code. We use our own CODE128 bar code." Li Laosan said They are all very proud.

"Oh? What's the difference?" (End of this chapter)