Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

In later generations, the most familiar software was the Office suite, with WPS as its competitor. Speaking of WPS, we have to mention the famous Qiu Jun in front of us, the programmer who developed this system. He even sold his villa back then to develop the system, making a do-or-die effort.

Right now, Qiu Jun is still unknown, but Qin Yang believes in his abilities.

"Currently, our operating system can only temporarily rely on DOS, so this office suite must also rely on DOS. It can run under the window system and also under DOS, which should attract more customers."

Speaking of office software on the DOS platform, one cannot fail to mention CCED. Although this software has disappeared into the long river of history in later generations, it was a hit across the country in the 1980s and 1990s.

Judging by the name, this software is just an ordinary Chinese character processing software, but in reality, it is a hodgepodge, integrating text editing, spreadsheet creation, data calculation, graphics and image functions, and typesetting and printing into one, making it a powerful office software.

Because of its powerful performance, it was loved by many users and dominated the top of the software sales charts for many years. It was even selected as part of the National Computer Rank Examination content and written into national cadre computer training materials, and so on.

Qin Yang is mentioning this project now, of course, because he wants to get the advanced word processing software out in advance. A domestic system paired with domestic word processing software would be a perfect match.

Once these are developed, they can be promoted nationwide to cultivate user habits, so that Microsoft will have nothing to do, saving us from being strangled in the future.

Qin Yang introduced the software, and Qiu Jun listened very carefully.

"Okay, I'll assign the tasks now. Comrade Yan Chao will be responsible for the operating system, and Comrade Qiu Jun will be responsible for the office suite. Others can choose to join the teams led by the two of them. The development funds will be provided by our Factory 960, and the development venue and computers will also be provided by us. Everyone can choose to work part-time or full-time," Qin Yang said, "In short, our Factory 960 will definitely not mistreat everyone."

Me? Qiu Jun was very curious: "Director Qin, you want me to be responsible for this office suite?"

"Yes, you. Do you have confidence?" Qin Yang asked with a smile.

"Yes! Director Qin, since you trust me, I will definitely not let you down," Qiu Jun said. "I will definitely complete the development of this software and create a myth for our national software!"

Qin Yang nodded. He knew that he wouldn't misjudge people. After all, Qiu Jun was regarded as the hope of national software. Unfortunately, WPS could never beat Office. Reality is so cruel. If the operating system is someone else's, no matter how much you develop software, you can't beat someone else's suite.

Now we are doing both hardware and software, operating systems and application software together. This market will definitely not be given to others. This is the only way to ensure the steady and healthy development of the motherland's high-tech industry!

Qin Yang is confident.

In later generations, the development of domestic software was difficult because whoever entered the market first got the food, and those who entered later didn't even get the soup.

In later generations, domestic operating systems were just changing the shell on the basis of Linux. However, an open-source system is always better than a black-box Windows. No one knows how many backdoors the latter has. For departments such as national defense, the latter is absolutely unusable.

"Director Qin, shouldn't we give our system a name? It was great that you named the chip Longxin (Dragon Core)," Yan Chao said. "Should our software also have a suitable name?"

"How about naming the operating system Hongqi (Red Flag)?"

A domestic operating system called Hongqi, let us raise this banner and lead the motherland's electronics industry and the motherland's high-tech industry to develop forward!

Everyone nodded.

"What about the word processing software?"

It was Qin Yang's turn to frown. The operating system was easy to name. After all, the domestic operating system modified from Linux in later generations was called Hongqi. But what should this word processing software be called? WPS? The full name of WPS is "Word Processing System", which translates to "文字编辑系统" (Wenzi Bianji Xitong) - Text Editing System. Later, "office" was added to the end, becoming an office suite.

If it's still called that now, it doesn't have the domineering feel of the Hongqi operating system.

When naming difficulties arise, a relatively simple way is to hand it over to others!

Qin Yang looked at Qiu Jun: "Qiu Jun, what name do you think is better?"

Qiu Jun thought for a moment: "Director Qin, I want to call it Qilin (Kylin), is that okay?"

Qilin (Kylin), a mythical beast of the East! Qiu Jun hopes that this software under his hand can also be as famous as the ancient mythical beast, known all over the world.

"Okay," Qin Yang nodded: "Then it will be called Qilin Office Suite."

These things were all arranged, and Qin Yang felt that he had completed his merits and was about to announce the end of the meeting when a weak voice sounded.

"Director Qin, what can I do?"

Wang Min couldn't bear it anymore. He wasn't bad either. How did he become an assistant?

Whether it was the operating system or the word processing system, he would definitely have to help, but he was a person with ideals and didn't want to rely entirely on others' help. He wanted to have his own project too!

"By the way, let me introduce myself, my name is."

Before Wang Min could finish speaking, Qin Yang called out: "Of course I know, your name is Wang Min, the person who developed the Wubi input method. You broke down Chinese characters into radicals, realizing the rapid input of our Chinese characters in computers."

Director Qin knows everything! Wang Min felt very proud in his heart.

"You can work on the Chinese character card," Qin Yang said: "Now, the performance of computers is still very limited, and you must use a Chinese character card to complete the input of Chinese characters. Although this kind of thing will be eliminated in the future, let's use it now."

If Liu Gong heard this, he would definitely be very angry. I wanted to work on the Chinese character card, and you sneered at it. Now, it's your turn to do it yourself. You're too two-faced!

In the 1980s, the sales of Chinese character cards were very hot. After all, this was a standard configuration for computers, and the famous Mouxiang (Certain Thinking) started its business with Chinese character cards.

Of course, Qin Yang couldn't let it go. This business could bring profits to the newly established high-tech company. Although he didn't mind investing huge sums of money, if he could make money, he still wanted to focus on making money. This is the only way to put the company on a path of virtuous development.

Of course, the key is what to do after making money. After making money, should we continue to shout that it smells good, completely abandon technology, and become an assembly plant, or invest the money from profits into research and development? Qin Yang, of course, had to choose the latter.

"Will it be eliminated in the future?" Wang Min asked curiously.

"Yes, in the future, with the advancement of computer technology, many things will be eliminated."

Qin Yang was still embarrassed to say more. With the advancement of Chinese character input technology, Wubi will also be eliminated sooner or later. Many people will not use it. Pinyin can be automatically matched by the input method, and the input speed will become faster and faster. Even in the later stages, voice input can appear.