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Chapter 370 Competitors
In fact, this kind of local area network is not unique. There are dozens of similar technologies in the world. Among them, the more famous ones are the mca network of Data General Corporation, the hyperchannel network of Network Systems Corporation, and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Institute. Ethernet.The blue book of the first version of the open technical standard of ethernet is being formulated jointly by Intel, dec and Xerox. ..."

After Thomas participated in the exhibition held by Dingtian Company in Pasadena High School, he went home with some excitement and spent two days writing a special article introducing the event.

Of course, as a proud native of the beautiful country, Thomas is absolutely unwilling to admit that John Bull's technology will be more advanced than the world's number one beautiful country.So at the beginning of the article, he first dismissed abc, a new computer from John Country Company, as technically worthless.

Thomas also had to admit that John Bull really made a very good product this time. He continued to write in the article: "We invented the z80 card because Apple's Apple computer is not compatible with the cp/m operating system. In order to allow many software on pc/m to run on apple computers, the z80 conversion card was created.

But that is just a passive compromise solution, and the reason why the conversion card uses the z80 processor instead of the mos6502 processor is also out of cost reduction considerations at the expense of part of the performance.

As for the dual CPU mode of the abc computer, although the principle and function of the second processor are similar to the z80 card, it is the RoyalTek-Dos operating system developed by Aikon in order to improve the performance of the abc computer. And a variety of application software, and actively carry out innovative design.

Besides the local area network system, Aikon's technology is not much stronger than similar technologies of other companies in the beautiful country, but they are the first company to apply it to microcomputer networking.

Although the performance of microcomputers called personal computers is far inferior to that of minicomputers, the high price of minicomputers and expensive after-sales maintenance costs are beyond the reach of most small and medium-sized enterprises. In contrast, microcomputers have the advantage of being cheap .

In the author's opinion, Aikon is keenly aware of this opportunity. The campus computer networking teaching solution they launched this time is just a test of the water. The business office field is broader than the school market.

From the software catalog provided by Aikon, we can also detect the company's huge ambitions.Their software supply catalog includes word processing software RoyalTek-word, form processing software RoyalTek-table, and database software RoyalTek-dbase.Regarding the functional evaluation of these three softwares, the author will write another analysis article in the next issue..."

In the August issue of "Computer Enthusiast", Thomas introduced Icon and its abc computer at length.Although he is somewhat disapproving of a series of new technologies of abc computer, he still approves of abc computer's overall evaluation.

Bai Zirui didn't see the article written by this column editor on "Computer Enthusiast". Thomas' evaluation was actually quite pertinent, and the abc computer was actually a hasty work.

In the original plan, Dingtian's first personal computer product will be a 32-bit computer with the core of the TRM architecture processor being developed by the team of Professor Yao Zhaoming of Dingtian Semiconductor Laboratory.

Even if the research and development of the TRM architecture processor is progressing smoothly, it will not come out until the second half of next year at the earliest, and IBM's PC compatible machine, which changed the era of personal computers, will be listed in October next year if nothing else happens.In this way, the TRM computer, which has just been on the market, will start a tragic fight with IBM's PC.

Who is the most powerful computer company in the world? IBM deserved it! The reason why IBM has been developing slowly in the past few years is not only due to the bloated internal organization, superfluous personnel, and prevailing bureaucratic style, but also because the Ministry of Justice of the beautiful country has been staring at it in recent years and has filed an anti-monopoly lawsuit against it. This has made IBM's business style cautious and cautious, and its expansion actions have become restrained.

The Ministry of Justice's anti-monopoly investigation is nearing completion, and IBM will soon be able to take off the magic spell on its head.Next year, Dingtian's TRM computer may be launched a few months earlier than IBM's PC.

However, Dingtian Company, whose foothold is not stable, wants to directly confront the blue giant IBM. Although Bai Zirui, as a reborn person, knows the data of PCs like the back of his hand, he dare not say that he has a [-]% chance of winning.After all, IBM's influence in the beautiful country is too great.

This is why Dingtian Company acquired John Guo Acorn Company, based on Acorn Company's atom computer, combined with the achievements of Xiangjiang R&D Department, launched the abc computer with 6502 processor as cpu, one day earlier Years to start admission layout.

If Dingtian can seize this year and lay a solid foundation in the personal computer market, the pressure to compete with IBM next year will be much lighter.

The current personal computer market is just when Apple is leading the way. 40 years later, Apple is indeed qualified to stand shoulder to shoulder with IBM, but in 1982, Apple was just a new company that had only been established for five or six years.

Bai Zirui is a little afraid of IBM, a huge unicorn hidden under the water, but he doesn't feel too much pressure on the competition from Apple. The apple2 computer can be said to be the first pinnacle of Apple's career, and the subsequent apple3 and Lisa computers were relatively unsuccessful works.

It wasn't until the launch of the Macintosh computer in 1984 that Apple regained its success, but at that time Apple could no longer be compared with the limelight of the Apple2 era.After that, Apple entered a long period of decline, and it was not until Boss Joe returned to Apple that he made a comeback.

Acorn's abc computer and Apple's Apple computer both use the 6502 processor. From the very beginning, Bai Zirui never considered beating his opponent on hardware, but would work on other aspects.

For example, in the rapidly expanding educational computer market of Apple, Bai Zirui has ingeniously adopted the new technology of local area network to realize networking in computer classrooms and make the teaching of computer teachers easier.Acorn's products are no longer just computers, but a set of systematic teaching solutions, which undoubtedly has a fatal appeal to school customers.

In Union City in the southeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, at the computer park franchise store that Bai Zirui visited, the store manager, Er Rui, was concentrating on playing with the Great Wall Cube Gameboy handheld in the store.Since Dingtian Company acquired Computer Garden Company, Gameboy handhelds were quickly placed on the counters of various branches under the name of Computer Garden Company.

Cora (Cora) confirmed that the signboard of the store is "Computer Corner" outside the store door, opened the door and walked in and asked: "Hi! Dude, where are the copies of "Tank War" and "Great Wall Cube" available? selling?"

He is a game fan, and he likes the arcade game "Tank Battle" developed by Dingtian Company very much, but there is no place to play arcade games near his home, so he needs to drive out to play every time, which is very inconvenient.

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