Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Before Markkula finished speaking, Tang Huan understood that the other party was a lazy convict and wanted to retire early. If it follows the historical trajectory, the next CEO will come from Coca-Cola-John? Scully.

Tang Huan doesn't care who will take Markkula's class. As long as Apple can continue to occupy a place in the low-end market with its original first-mover advantage, it will be enough to keep its software in a continuously rising market share.

Therefore, Tang Huan expressed his opinions on Apple’s high-level personnel relations, “I think that the next CEO should have some necessary characteristics, such as the demeanor of a big business person, who can eat well on Wall Street. , And it’s best to be a consumer product marketing expert who understands advertising and market research."

"It is true. Now Apple is a listed company. It must be formalized." Markkula nodded his head with deep conviction. "However, to meet such requirements, this person's qualifications must be very glamorous. It is estimated that only ibm, hp Only these big companies can find suitable candidates."

"Actually, the range of choices..." Tang Huan was about to go down to talk about his different views, and was interrupted by Jobs's slap on the table. He said in a passionate tone: "I thought of a choice, which is absolutely suitable."

Tang Huan was too lazy to be angry, and nodded slightly, "So, who is it?"

"Don Estelitch, the director of the ibm personal computer department." Jobs replied with beaming eyes.

"You really dare to think about it." Tang Huan muttered in his heart, then lifted the cup to hide his urge to laugh out loud.

"Is it feasible?" Markkula looked suspicious, feeling that Jobs was a bit whimsical.

"What's wrong, we offer him a salary of one million dollars. Such a CEO is no better than being a head of a small department in ibm." Jobs analyzed confidently.

Tang Huan rubbed his nose. Xin said that Jobs also made a lot of sense.

"Salary of one million dollars..." Markkula muttered to himself, as if the price was a bit high.

"Since you have no opinion, then I will contact Don Estelitch." Jobs did what he said. It can be described as vigorous and resolute.

Looking at the back of Jobs leaving, Tang Huan thoughtfully.

Regarding the search for a competent CEO. Jobs seemed to be too active and enthusiastic, which made Tang Huan have to doubt the other's motives.

Perhaps, Jobs suffered a lot from the former CEO Mike Scott, so he planned to find a co-worker, or even a puppet, when he had enough ability to control the overall situation. The opponent kicked away. Own in power.

"Steve is still so impatient." Markkula shook his head helplessly, "Tang, what did you just say?"

"I mean, the CEO's choice is not necessarily limited to the circle of high-tech companies, as long as the other party meets the requirements. After all, business management has something in common."

At this point, Tang Huan smiled slightly, "I heard a widely circulated joke, what is the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts? The answer is. The Boy Scouts are controlled by adults."

Markkula Manlan waved his hand awkwardly. He and the former CEO Mike Scott, who had been driven away, both wanted to bring the order of the big company to Apple. But it hasn't been so until now, and the reason is self-evident.

"So, you are not optimistic about the result of Steve contacting Don Estelic?" Markkula pondered for a moment, "It seems that it is necessary to expand the search range. What suggestions do you have?"

"Corporate headhunting he-Gerry Roche is socially extensive. In terms of high-end talent needs, I find them to provide services." Tang Huan wrote some information on the sticky note and handed it to Markkula.

"I guess. It will take a while for Apple to find a satisfactory CEO candidate." Tang Huan looked at Markkula. Sincerely suggested: "Mike, I hope you can get an upgraded model before the end of your term, that is, a 16-bit model."

"Do you think that compared with the self-developed Lisa and, there is still potential to be tapped?" Markkula asked humbly, "but most people in the company think it is too outdated."

"But the reality is that it contributes most of Apple's revenue." Tang Huan smiled playfully. "Up to now, hundreds of thousands of units have been sold. This user base is hard-won and cannot be ignored. , Launching a sleek and excessively upgraded product is definitely beneficial, such as application software and entertainment games."

Markkula nodded clearly, "But Woz, the head of the department, has temporarily left the company and has gone to college."

"This requires you to invite it." Tang Huan said solemnly, "Mike, trust me, this project is definitely worth doing, and the benefits will not be long before you will understand."

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In fact, as Tang Huan and Markkula expected, Steve Jobs went to dig the corner of IBM, only to touch the dust of his nose.

He flew to Boca Raton, Florida, where the ibm personal computer department is located, and offered a $1 million salary plus a $1 million signing bonus, but he was rejected.

I have to say that Don Estelic is not the kind of person who betrays the enemy, and he is unwilling to leave the ibm company that can bring him a sense of honor.

Don Estelich is self-motivated, quick-thinking, able to inspire his subordinates, and a little rebellious. But he and Jobs are two kinds of people, which can be clearly seen from one point.

When Jobs tried to display his personal charm and lobby, he mentioned the story of using a blue box to steal a phone call. This was originally something worth showing off in his opinion, but it made Don Estelic feel very much. Uncomfortable, the two sides have no common language.

Tang Huan didn't say anything about Jobs's defeat this time. Even if it was not successful, this action can also make ibm's management have some suspicion. It is enough to achieve such an effect. This is also the main reason why he is optimistic that he will become Steve Jobs on this trip.

What's more, this is the internal affairs of the partner after all, and Tang Huan himself has a lot of things to deal with. How can there be too much time to judge others.

Since he had money in his hands, Tang Huan's capital acquisitions can be described as frequent moves. The most recent one was the inclusion of Pacific Bell, which is worth tens of billions of dollars.

These companies do not need to worry about the operation of Tang Huan, but Pacific Communications is a little exception, because this large platform involves a lot of layout.

Chief Executive Chuck Smith’s executive power has greatly appreciated Tang Huan. In a short period of time, he has basically adjusted the organization in place. In addition to the addition of a value-added service department within Pacific Communications that can report directly to the highest level, two companies parallel to Pacific Communications have also been established under Galaxy Communications: a company that operates telecommunications equipment-network communications electronics company; operations senior Data application service company-cloud data service company.

Among them, the former's products include the dn350 series telecommunications program-controlled switches using Yipeng/-l processors, and phones that support caller ID functions; the latter includes e-mail services, and accepts hosting and operating Zheru’s bbs platform pbbs and ea networks Game mud.

As for the implementation of the caller ID function, the San Francisco Bay Area was used as a pilot, and it was fully launched.

The media had a very optimistic outlook on this, and the Gein caller ID feature made users look forward to it for too long.

In Tang Huan's view, AT&T's long-term monopoly. A lot of mistakes have indeed occurred. The increasingly relaxed financial resources make them lack motivation in technological upgrading. Caller ID is such a promising function. But it is too late to enter the practical application stage.

Rough calculations, in addition to the service fee for the caller ID function, the supporting telephone set is a big industry, but AT&T has never entered this golden mountain.

After experiencing it on the spot, Tang Huan began to ponder the next move in the communication field. There is no doubt that it is mobile phones, but there are still many articles to do in the traditional phone field, as long as the network supports it.

At this moment. Intel President and CEO Andy Grove, accompanied by his Hungarian fellow Charles Simeone. Come to visit.

I have to say that Feng Shui turns around. With Tang Huan’s rapid rise in status, Intel’s top leaders must visit the door in person when they have something to do.

All things do not go to the Palace of Three Treasures, Andy Grove came this time for his new processor, intel80286 officially released on February 1 this year, to Tang Huan here to seek support.

You know, with the support of Zheru's comprehensive programming language, Motorola's processor series launched in 1979 has had an extremely rapid sales momentum in the past two years. Such a successful business case must be used for reference.

Compared with the previous generation processor intel8086, which is also the 16-bit intel80286, many improvements and upgrades have been made.

It uses a 16-bit data bus and a 24-bit address bus, integrates about 130,000 transistors, a production process of 1.5 microns, and a clock frequency from 6mhz to 20mhz.

The biggest improvement of l80286 is that it provides two modes of operation-real mode and protected mode.

In real mode, l80286 directly accesses the memory space is limited to 1m bytes, which is the previous operating mode of intel8086, and more memory needs to be mapped through the ems or xms memory mechanism.

In the protected mode, the l80286 can directly access 16m bytes of memory and has an exception handling mechanism.

This is particularly important because it provides native hardware support for multitasking systems on the hardware.

However, in the original time and space, Intel was glaring at blind people. Including the later Intel80386, the software industry seldom used this mechanism throughout the 1980s, and Gein, who had monopolized the market, didn’t support it, and Microsoft had no intention of it. , Or don’t have the ability to make improvements to support.

Andy Grove was naturally unable to realize these problems. He came to Tang Huan this time to find a compiler tool for the newly born intel80286.

Unconsciously, the programming tools of philosophers have monopolized the commercial development market, especially assembly language, c language and c++ language are most talked about.

Recently, Zheru launched a new programming tool that supports language, and its coding quality and running speed attracted the attention of the entire industry and immediately attracted a large number of **** users.

It is no exaggeration to say that philosophers have already stood on the apex of the pyramid in the field of compiler technology.

Andy Grove does not expect philosopher's programming tools to fully support intel80286 immediately, but he hopes to be favored by the most basic assembly language development tools as quickly as possible.

Originally, the relationship between Intel and Tang Huan could be regarded as a seamless cooperation, but since ibm was in the middle, especially after the supply of intel8086 was stale, the two sides have become a little strange.

In this regard, Andy Grove was helpless and innocent. The board of directors was ecstatic about the result of holding ibm thighs, but it also caused a lot of troubles, which really made him the CEO who is responsible for specific affairs. Dilemma.

In order to negotiate smoothly, Andy Grove used a personal relationship to meet Tang Huan through the channel of the vice president of Philosopher and fellow villager Charles Simeone.

Although he was dissatisfied with Intel ~www.readwn.com~, Tang Huan still showed his due tolerance and warmly entertained Andy Grove.

"To tell you the truth, the support of the Zheru compiler for the cpu is largely in line with Fangyuan Computer." Tang Huan said frankly.

"Intel welcomes Fangyuan Computer to adopt intel80286 to develop new personal computer models, and is willing to cooperate in all aspects." Andy Grove eagerly sent out an invitation.

ibm has planned to develop the ibm-model of intel80286. If Fangyuan computers are brought in, it will surely replicate the market prosperity of intel8086.

Andy Grove thought with joy in his heart, but he heard Tang Huan sneer, "When we develop new models, will you be playing tricks on cpu supply? In the era of intel8086, what are you doing? ibm specially provided intel8088, we still barely have a direct conflict; but in the era of intel80286, all manufacturers use the same kind of intel80286, right? do we have a high priority for ibm?" (to be continued)

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