Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 345 Development Commission of DOS

"Come on, come on, Carter, let me introduce you: This is Director Tang of our Department of Computer Engineering and Science, Secretary Tang! Second Tang of our computer science department!"

"Old Tang, Secretary Tang! This is a great benefactor of your laboratory. He got the five computers and textbooks!"

"Ouch! Thank you, thank you, hurry up and sit down, I have to thank you very much today! With this new machine, our scientific research efficiency and learning progress have been greatly accelerated."

That evening, in a small restaurant outside Tsinghua University.The warm welcome is being staged
"It's okay, I'm not helping in vain! I came here with a purpose! I'll talk about this later"

After chuckling and waving his hands, Carter sat down with everyone.Before getting down to business, Carter first turned his attention to Liu Baicheng:
"How do you know that I donated those computers?"

"Besides you, who else can be?! If there is only a computer, I might not think of you, but those basic textbooks are because I said at the time that it is difficult for us old guys to learn programming by ourselves, right? You have a heart! "

"Yes, Mr. Carter! We can't speak, and we don't know how to express our gratitude. What's the matter, you order! As long as we don't violate organizational discipline and can help, we are duty-bound!"

When three big men from science and engineering get together, the politeness will not last long.When he heard Carter say "not in vain", Er Tang felt relieved, and then quietly raised his vigilance
It stands to reason that the donation itself is not a labor commission, and they can completely refuse.But in the simple values ​​of "taking people with short hands and eating people with short mouths", it's really unreasonable to do so!
Er Tang questioned Carter's needs, not only hoping to repay his kindness, but also seeking peace of mind!
"Don't worry, it must be legal and reasonable! That's it. Secretary Han, please help me get that hard drive over!"

"Which one is this?"

"right"

Taking over a hard drive, Carter put it on the desktop:
"This is a disk operating system called DOS, which is the most primitive version. It is developed based on the Intel 8086 chip, and it is not compatible with the Apple ii I donated to you. But I think it has great potential, But I don’t have the strength to develop technology myself, so I hope to entrust you, Tsinghua University, to help me do this.”

"Don't worry, the full copyright of this system is in my hands. Don't worry about regulatory risks, this is one of them. Well, let's go to a school-enterprise cooperation project! I think so"

"The DOS system, as it can be said, is a relatively advanced operating system in the United States. I brought it to Tsinghua University, and it should be helpful to your research and study. In the process of researching it, you are trying to improve it. development, and can also help me improve it further.”

"Wait, Mr. Carter! This advanced system, you bring it out to us like this... won't cause trouble?!"

Speaking of this, not only Ertang's face became tense, but even Mr. Liu frowned.Obviously, he didn't expect Carter to come out like this!
You know, the current Reagan's attitude towards China is completely different from the old Carter's!What if
"Hahaha, it's okay! Don't worry! Let's not say that the United States does not have software patents yet. Even if there are, the current DOS is not noticeable. The mainstream operating system in the American market is cp/m. This DOS, so far, only Loaded on a production model."

Smiling and waving his hands, Carter signaled that they don't have to worry about regulations.

Coincidentally!

When I bought the DOS copyright, I just felt that this thing sounded familiar, and I shouldn’t lose money if I bought it; and donating to Tsinghua University, I just listened to Liu Baicheng’s story and felt it.
Until just before departure, when playing in Florida.Inadvertently, Carter heard the little guy Ken Griffin complain: The current operating system is not very easy to use, if only it can be improved somewhere
As the son of the main supplier of DOG Construction Engineering and the grandson of one of the major suppliers of HT, when he arrived in Florida, Carter naturally didn't mind calling this little guy to play with him.

But this is not important, what is important is that the sentence needs to be improved, which instantly woke up Carter!
Existing keywords: 1. DOS can be improved, 2. I have no strength to improve it, 3. I donated a computer to Tsinghua University.
And Tsinghua happens to be the number one university in the field of computer science in China!
Even in 1981, their technical strength was not ranked first in the world.But do I need them to help me develop some awesome new technology?
No need!Just on the basis of DOS, improve and improve
There are ready-made templates based on Chinese copycats. Oh no, the ability to learn from them!Copy it for you first, and you can basically understand your design logic, and then tinker with it, bit by bit, the green out of the blue is better than the blue!

This ability is backed by history!
You can complain that the Chinese don’t know how to make brands, but no one can deny the learning ability of the Chinese!
"IBM, are you familiar? They launched their first personal computer in April this year. This computer provides customers with three optional operating systems: cp/m, DOS and UCSD p-system!"

"The popularity of the last operating system is relatively poor, so let's ignore it for now. cp/m, a copy is priced at 240 US dollars, while DOS only costs 40 US dollars! The six-fold price gap made me realize that as long as the DOS system is not as good as If the cp/m difference is too large, then it will definitely be able to take advantage of IBM's east wind and burn all over the United States and even the world!"

"Well, Mr. Carter, I want to ask. How can there be such a price gap? Is DOS technically inferior to CP/M or?"

Rubbing the hard drive on the desktop, Director Tang seemed very excited.When Carter was halfway through speaking, he understood what Carter wanted to do!
It's nothing more than using Tsinghua's cheap labor. Emmm, compared to the cheap labor in the US market to help him work!
It sounds like a loss, but this hard drive contains a technical teaching material that is truly in line with international standards and is hard to buy!This is not the kind of obsolete product that has been used abroad for several years, or even decades!

It is the current version launched by a technology giant like IBM just this year!It can be seen by IBM, even if it has not been actually tested, but the three of them can guess that the technical content should not be low.Being able to obtain it means that Tsinghua Computer Engineering has a reference to benchmark international advanced standards in the field of software research and development!

It's better to study it than to think about some outdated and old things, right? !
Such an opportunity is the most attractive for academic researchers!

So after hearing that there were no problems with the regulations, Director Tang's first concern was the advanced nature of the DOS system.As for the cooperation, whether Carter will pay
Does that matter? !
"Hahaha, that's not the reason! I don't understand technology, but I have consulted people who understand technology."

"The DOS system and cp/m are completely two things, and the command functions are different. In terms of use, the effect is actually the same. I heard that the response of DOS is faster. You can test this yourself later, CP/M , I also bought a copy, Secretary Han."

"I can hand it over to you for comparison and research. But cp/m, you have to hide this. This is the commercial version I bought, and I have no copyright. Just study it secretly, don't say anything"

(End of this chapter)