The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 107 Early Warning Aircraft

Qiu Bojun suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

He thought to himself, my original software is not as good as someone else's magic modification.

If this software is promoted under a different name in the future, it will easily defeat my original version of WPS software...

After Qiu Bojun experienced the modified version of WPS, he felt a little confused.

He then used other applications.

There is also video playback software and music playback software on this computer. There are one or two video files and music files on the computer hard drive.

After trying it, I found that the playback picture and sound quality seemed to be quite good.

This is obviously another innovation.

Most computers today do not have video or music playback software.

He then tried the mini-games installed on his computer: Lianliankan, Watermelon Cutting, and Gold Miner, which were all quite interesting.

In addition to the above three mini-games, there are also two card games: Hearts and Upgrade.

This greatly enhances the entertainment properties of this computer.

When ordinary people use computers, they basically value them for their entertainment attributes.

To describe it in one sentence: It is used to kill time!

Why are there so few ordinary computer users nowadays?

In addition to being too expensive, there is another point: it is not entertaining enough.

Of course, the main reason is that computers are too expensive.

After Qiu Bojun finished experiencing this computer, he fell into deep thought for a long time.

And Zhang Zhipeng didn't bother him.

Zhang Zhipeng knew that the impact of his computer on Qiu Bojun should be quite strong.

And he felt that the stronger the impact, the more conducive it would be for him to conquer Qiu Bojun.

After a few minutes, Qiu Bojun shook his head, sighed and asked, "Mr. Long, I wonder how much you would price this laptop if it were sold to external parties?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "Nowadays laptops seem to be very expensive. High-end laptops usually start at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, right?"

Qiu Bojun nodded and said, "That's true."

"I have a PS/2 Model L40 SX launched by IBM last year, which is not yet sold in China."

"It is priced at more than 6 Hong Kong dollars!"

"Its memory is only 2M, the main frequency is only 20 MHz, and the hard drive is an 80 MB IDE hard drive..."

"Compared to this laptop of yours, it's just dregs."

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "This configuration is indeed low enough."

"The hardware of our computer is dozens of times that of it."

Qiu Bojun asked: "So, if you sell this computer to the market, how much will it cost?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled slightly and said, "2 yuan, what do you think?"

Qiu Bojun was very surprised: "Is it so cheap?"

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "Our goal is to make it affordable for the most people."

"This 2 yuan is already a very high price."

Qiu Bojun shrugged and said, "Mr. Long, I would like to ask, when will your computer be mass-produced and sold to the outside world?"

Zhang Zhipeng said: "We plan to enter the mass production stage at the end of 1992."

"We will try to sell it to the outside world before the Spring Festival of 1993."

Qiu Bojun hesitated for a moment, then asked: "I want to know, if I am willing to cooperate with you, what kind of work can I do?"

Qiu Bojun had to change his mind.

Because the WPS that Zhang Zhipeng magically modified gave him a huge blow.

Moreover, he discovered that Zhang Zhipeng's laptop was really too advanced.

The technology is very mature...

If it can really be mass-produced, it will have a huge impact on the world's microcomputer market!

By that time, I don’t know how many computer manufacturers will go bankrupt!

His request for Bojun will inevitably be attacked.

Therefore, Qiu Bojun had a strong sense of crisis.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "If Teacher Qiu is willing to join our company, you can be responsible for the software development work of our Huaxing Company."

"We are preparing to write an operating system with completely independent intellectual property rights. This is a huge project. It is estimated that one or two thousand programmers will need to work together and write it together to achieve a breakthrough in the short term."

"And you will be the person responsible for writing our own operating system."

"At the same time, we will also develop a series of application software, such as graphic design software, animation design software, picture editing software, etc. This requires a large team of programmers to implement."

"So, if you are willing to cooperate, you will have the opportunity to open up a new situation with me!"

"Together we can build a truly fully independent computer!"

"And you, in addition to WPS, you may also become the father of the domestic operating system! You will also leave a strong mark in history."

"I wonder what you think?"

Zhang Zhipeng described the prospects to Qiu Bojun vividly.

Qiu Bojun smiled and said, "What you said is really heart-pounding."

"But I want to know why you chose me?"

"We actually just met by chance."

"Could it be that you entrust such an important task to just one person so easily?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "I am not entrusting this randomly. First of all, I admire you very much. I think you are one of the few outstanding programmers!"

"Secondly, I think you are a person who has feelings for your family and country. I can tell from the fact that you refused Microsoft's high salary and stuck to WPS."

"Even if this chance encounter hadn't happened, I would probably have taken the initiative to visit you!"

"It can also be said that this chance encounter may be an arrangement from God! Haha!"

Qiu Bojun hesitated for a moment and then asked: "I want to know how you plan to arrange the WPS software?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "It will be Huaxing's main office software and can continue to be improved and perfected, but you are still its copyright owner."

"All the conditions I just mentioned can be counted!"

"In the future, WPS will be pre-installed on every Huaxing computer, and each computer will give you your own copyright fee. No less than one million yuan per year!"

"The more China Renaissance Computers sells, the more money you get."

"Of course, I can give you a good salary, but it will definitely not be as much as Microsoft." Qiu Bojun thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Long, the salary is good, and I can even authorize WPS to The company has no problem.”

"I actually only have one condition."

"That is: Can this software company not be located in Chang'an?"

Qiu Bojun put forward his request.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and asked: "So, where do you want this company to be located?"

Qiu Bojun smiled slightly and said, "I hope this company can be located in Zhuhai City."

"Because it is close to Hong Kong Island, Aomen and Shenzhen, and there are more programming IT talents gathered there."

"Of course, I also have my own selfish motives. My home is there and I am used to living there."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and nodded and said, "No problem! I can agree to this request."

Qiu Bojun felt a little surprised.

He never imagined that Zhang Zhipeng would agree so readily.

"Mr. Long, aren't you afraid that if the software subsidiary is too far away from the parent company, it will be difficult to control it?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "What's so hard to control?"

"Isn't it enough that everything is carried out in accordance with the management system?"

"Teacher Qiu is an outstanding talent, and the company is willing to make some sacrifices for you."

"What's more, what you just said makes sense! Zhuhai is very close to Hong Kong, Macao and Shenzhen. The development prospects there are very good at present, which is conducive to attracting outstanding international talents to join."

Next, Zhang Zhipeng began to talk to Qiu Bojun about the architecture and core ideas of the domestic operating system he wanted to write.

In fact, for a top programmer, writing an operating system is really not a difficult task.

The question is: whether the operating system you have worked so hard to write can have a large number of users, whether it can bring economic benefits, and then push you to continuously improve and improve iterations.

Zhang Zhipeng now has the willingness and ability to promote the writing of a new domestic operating system.

Qiu Bojun was also very interested in this.

Qiu Bojun is a very talented programmer. Why hasn't he ever dreamed of writing a domestic operating system?

The main reason why he was unwilling to try it before was that the amount of the project was too huge, and even if he wrote it out, few people would use it, and it would not bring him any economic benefits. Bring him down!

Therefore, only fools will do things that are not worth their effort.

The more the two talked, the more speculative they became. With each other's words, they basically explained everything about the design and architecture of the domestic operating system.

Zhang Zhipeng told Qiu Bojun that he and his team had built a new programming tool platform and developed a new programming language. This language is more powerful and very easy to learn.

The JAVA programming platform software has been installed on the laptop brought by Zhang Zhipeng.

He showed it to Qiu Bojun.

Qiu Bojun immediately realized that this new programming language looked really good.

What Qiu Bojun didn't expect the most was that Zhang Zhipeng had even developed a tool platform for programmers to collaborate in writing large-scale software as a team.

With this platform, all programmers can divide up a small amount of tasks. After typing the code, they can upload it to the platform for integration, and finally form an excellent large-scale software.

With this platform, programmers basically don’t have to work alone. Not much different from workers moving bricks on a construction site, hundreds or even thousands of programmers collaborate to write software. In this way, the software industry has become a workshop with streamlined operations.

The word coder is indeed a very vivid term.

In fact, the Robin family had done this many years ago.

Zhang Zhipeng and Qiu Bojun had a very interesting chat.

They have basically reached an agreement on the establishment of Huaxing Computer Software Company in Zhuhai.

Zhang Zhipeng said to Qiu Bojun: "Teacher Qiu, you are mainly responsible for the company here in Zhuhai. I will send a team to assist you. We will try to build the company as soon as possible."

"I'll give you 20 million as the starting capital. That should be okay, right?"

Qiu Bojun nodded and said, "It should be enough."

“It’s quite cheap to rent an office building here in Zhuhai now. You can rent an entire floor of over 1,000 square meters for less than 10,000 yuan a month. Even if we rent two or three floors, it won’t be too stressful. "

"The most important investment may be the purchase of equipment. However, if we produce computers ourselves, as you said, then the cost in this area will be greatly reduced."

"So, 20 million yuan should be enough for us to use for one year. There is absolutely no problem."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and nodded and said: "Very good! Teacher, please, then you also need to come with me to meet the representative of the main investor of our Huaxing Company."

Zhang Zhipeng took Qiu Bojun to see Zhao Bingkun.

Zhao Bingkun also knew about Qiu Bojun. He smiled and said to Qiu Bojun: "Comrade Bojun, I am very pleased that you can come to help Comrade Changzhi!"

"Let's all work hard together and strive to let China use our own domestic operating system! This is of great significance to our country's security and technological development!"

Qiu Bojun was surprised.

He thought to himself, I thought Long Changzhi was a private company, but after a long time, his backend turned out to be the Science and Technology Commission?

This backstage is quite tough!

It seems that the state's support for the development of the electronic technology industry is also quite huge.

Just like that, Qiu Bojun was successfully recruited by Zhang Zhipeng.

Some time later, Zhang Zhipeng sent a team to Zhuhai to work with Qiu Bojun to build the Zhuhai Jinshan Computer Software Branch of Huaxing Company.

Zhang Zhipeng himself also went to Zhuhai to see the situation and helped solve some problems.

But his main focus is on the research and development of early warning aircraft.

The main difficulty in the development of early warning aircraft is the electronic information processing system.

If you want to comprehensively detect battlefield information, you need to build a "brain" that can understand the ever-changing battlefield situation!

This brain integrates early warning detection, electronic reconnaissance, combat command and other functions.

Integrating electronic information systems is Zhang Zhipeng’s strength.

In addition to this problem, there is also the problem of airborne radar.

Because airborne radar is installed on the aircraft, it is much more difficult to develop than ground-based fixed radar.

Because its overall weight cannot be too large, its power consumption cannot be too high, but its detection performance is very demanding.

Ordinary radar simply does not meet the requirements.

This requires the development of phased array radar.

Replacing an ordinary radar with a phased array radar is equivalent to replacing a "one-eye" with a "compound eye". It uses thousands of micro-detection array components to form an array. These array components that can independently transmit and receive interact with each other. Assist and perform their own duties, they can track hundreds of targets at the same time, command and guide fighters and missiles to carry out long-range precision strikes.

Of course, when Zhang Zhipeng was deeply involved in the research and development of early warning aircraft, he also realized the important role of electronic warfare in modern warfare.

As an aerial reconnaissance and warning platform, the early warning aircraft is the most vulnerable to receiving critical attention from the other party.

Early warning aircraft are not only the main target of the opponent's force, but also the main target of the opponent's electronic interference.

Therefore, the early warning aircraft must also have anti-electronic warfare capabilities.

(End of this chapter)