Chapter 121： laptop

Bao Zixuan held a portable computer development conference on the first night he just returned to MIT. Now more than two months have passed, and good news has finally come from the computer company. The world's first portable computer has been successfully developed, and has reached the design performance, and initially meets the needs of commercialization.

Bao Zixuan came to Heiyun Small Processing Factory, since he succeeded in transforming CNC machine tools here. Black Cloud Computer Company transformed a part of this place into a laboratory. Although it is not very professional, it is enough to produce some simple parts.

Computers are an absolute high-tech product in this era, but the Black Cloud Group does not have much technical reserves. The result is that Black Cloud laptops are basically purchased off-the-shelf parts inside.

Due to the good cooperative relationship with MIT, the Intel 8086 chip was obtained in advance, the first product of this x86 family can be said to be of epoch-making significance.

The Heiyun portable computer uses the Intel 8086 chip. Although it is only a 16-bit processor, it is more than one level stronger than the 8-bit processor of Apple's second-generation computer.

Looking at the portable computer that the engineer has just assembled, it can be said that it is the highest achievement of this era in both shape and configuration.

Bao Zixuan said to Hashimoto Hiroshi: "Hashimoto-kun, please introduce its performance."

Hashimoto Hao glanced at Bao Zixuan gratefully and was very moved. He played more of a coordinating role in the development of this computer, and the real technical breakthroughs were all his team of engineers.

This group has assembled dozens of professional computer talent teams from MIT, and they are not afraid of any challenges in this world.

Hashimoto Hiroshi: "Your Excellency President, our portable computer is 42 cm in length, 26.3 cm in width, 3.6 cm in thickness and 2.7 kg in weight."

"The screen is a 12.5-inch color TFT liquid crystal display, and the CPU uses Intel 8086-16 microprocessor. The floating budget per second is 8 times the computing speed of Apple's second-generation computer. It uses a 1g hard drive, which can meet all commercial needs. need."

Bao Zixuan looked at the portable computer and said, "In the future, this computer will be called a notebook computer. Our computer is like a notebook that can be placed in people's briefcases and can be taken out for work at any time."

"About this laptop, I named him the Phantom 1100. This is the first laptop in our Phantom series. We will also develop a computer with more advanced performance and faster computing speed based on the chip function in the future."

"I have always believed in Moore's Law. When the price remains unchanged, the number of components on an integrated circuit will double in about 18-24 months, and the performance will also double. In other words, every dollar can The performance of the computer purchased will more than double in 18-24 months.”

"Now all manufacturers are vigorously developing integrated circuits, maybe even faster than Moore said. We have to seize this opportunity to develop a unique personal computer as quickly as possible."

Hashimoto Hiroshi said: "Your Excellency President, now our Heiyun operating system has been integrated with the notebook computer, but there are still some problems with the Chinese character input you mentioned."

"We are all European and American engineers here. We haven't studied Chinese systematically. The Wubi input method you mentioned last time is still impossible to complete."

Hearing this, Bao Zixuan remembered the problem of spelling and inputting Chinese characters. As Hashimoto Hiroshi said, these American engineers cannot understand the profoundness and breadth of Chinese characters. Huaxia is one of the most difficult languages ​​and characters to learn in the world.

The five-stroke typing method in the previous life was invented by Wang Yongmin in 1983, but Wang Yongmin has not touched personal computers yet. For now, it seems that you can only solve this problem yourself.

Now the computer operating system already exists, and it can reach the level of Microsoft Windows 1.0 in 1985. After all, the Windows patent has been registered in advance by Black Cloud. And in the area of ​​system encryption, Bao Zixuan is definitely the most outstanding engineer in this era. With more than 40 years of thinking and technology beyond this era, he can avoid many detours.

As a Hong Kong enterprise, if the computer cannot use traditional Chinese characters for office work, it will cause some unnecessary troubles when cooperating with mainland enterprises after the return.

Bao Zixuan said to Hashimoto Hiroshi, "Leave the five-stroke typing to me! You don't have to worry about this matter. After all, I'm the only one here who is an engineer who knows Chinese characters."

They were relieved to hear the boss say this. After all, their knowledge of Chinese characters is very limited. Even Hashimoto Hiroshi, an RB person, only knows most of the Chinese characters.

After leaving the laboratory, Bao Zixuan returned to his office. Heiyun Group has suffered losses in these several negotiations, which made him recognize his own strengths and weaknesses. At least he can save a lot of money by letting professional lawyers negotiate. It's better to work hard in product development, negotiation is really not my strong point.

Bao Zixuan's current task is to complete the Wubi typing software, and at the same time, he has to complete two versions. However, in this era, apart from the mainland, there is no dictionary with simplified characters for sale.

Although I used the Wubi typing method in my previous life, I don’t know much about the roots of traditional Chinese characters, and if I write the roots of simplified Chinese characters without any reference, it will make people suspicious. These two versions of Wubi typing must have a reasonable explanation, otherwise it will be strange if they are not suspected.

Bao Zixuan called Peng Yifei to the office and saw that the boss had never spoken to him so solemnly. Peng Yifei was a little puzzled. After all, they had been together for a long time and knew that Bao Zixuan was not usually a very serious person.

Bao Zixuan also didn't want his subordinates to misunderstand. After all, although the matter that he was asked to do this time was small, it was easy for his subordinates to misunderstand.

Bao Zixuan looked at Peng Yifei and said, "Afei, I hope you can help me with something. After all, I don't want too many people to know about this."

Peng Yifei: "Boss, tell me! As long as I can do it."

Bao Zixuan: "It's a small matter, so don't worry about it. You are the person I trust the most. After all, the policy is not very clear now. Dictionary. I need to use a lot of roots to write Hanzi software."

Peng Yifei thought that this is something that any elementary school student can get, why is it so serious all of a sudden! But then I thought that the boss was worried about making him misunderstand that he didn't trust him. Using this method to explore the way, did he still have contact with the mainland.

Also, if someone finds out what to do with the mainland's dictionary at this time, it will be used by those who are interested. Now Heiyun Group has become a benchmark company in Heungkong, and it can be said that it is the company that employs the most people in Heungkong. As far as he knows, there are currently more than 20,000 workers in the Heiyun factory in Heungjiang, and the number is increasing every day.

Bao Zixuan's actions are now not just personal behaviors, but are related to the dynamics of the entire Black Cloud Group. If the factory is fully constructed, it will require at least 50,000 employees, accounting for 1% of the population of Xiangjiang. This is a force that no one can ignore. And the output value is a terrifying existence.

Peng Yifei is no longer an ordinary driver who only knows how to drive. Being with Bao Zixuan all these days has made him a lot more mature, and he also knows the boss's worries in his heart.

Peng Yifei said solemnly: "Boss, please rest assured, I will definitely go over and get things done in person."

Bao Zixuan looked at his expression and knew that he could rest assured. Although a few dictionaries looked simple, it was a big or small event in a special era. It is ideal to leave it to Peng Yifei to deal with it. You can also write the Wubi software for traditional Chinese characters first, and the dictionary can be prepared long ago.

Bao Zixuan said to Peng Yifei, "You will fly back to Xiangjiang tomorrow, and then find a way to bring back a few simplified Chinese dictionaries. Be careful."

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