Chapter 1013 Everyone has their own business
In fact, the ammunition has become sufficient. With the successful launch of Microsoft's Windows NT, it announced the official arrival of the Internet era, driving the crazy rise of stocks.
Especially this time, Windows NT also adopts UNICODE as the standard, integrating the mainland's GB18030, Hong Kong Island's HKSCS and Taiwan Island's BIG5, leaving huge room for expansion and solving the problem of character classes once and for all. Fundamental application issues.
This application is ahead of its time, because today, when system storage units are expensive, Windows NT loads the Han text library, which requires a large storage space and takes up 2M more memory during operation. For systems with lower configurations, Stuttering will occur.
Later generations may find it very funny, but for a computer with only 16M of memory, the difficulty is indeed very real.
This problem is actually easy to solve. According to Zhou Zhi's suggestion, Hanwen Font Library first accommodated all the Chinese characters in the first issue of the font library under the same encoding rules, and then packaged them into three packages, the so-called "Mainland Version". "Hong Kong version" and "Taiwan version" are available for users to choose independently. They can install all or part of them.
In the future, as the performance of storage devices improves and prices decrease, and storage space is no longer the bottleneck restricting software development, we can combine the three into one and directly install the Hanwen large font library.
This is a huge change in thinking. From solving the problem first and then working on patches one by one, it has changed to first proposing an overall plan from a high level, and then making some deletions and adjustments based on the actual situation, and waiting for the time to mature in the future. , and these deletions and adjustments can be supplemented into a whole, which is a perfect solution.
As a result, Microsoft's stock price has risen even more than in the previous life, and its important partner IBM has also become a related beneficiary.
Zhou Zhi and Li Laosan, who started planning two years in advance, have completely ushered in the feast of the IT era.
With a large amount of money to make a profit, there are many ways to operate.
There are many software in later generations, but those who can know their names are actually survivors after the great waves.
For example, Oracle's ORACLE database, Adobe, which developed the famous image processing software Photoshop, and Quantum Information Data Company, the predecessor of AOL.
Many companies are even just small workshops and studios now. When Photoshop first came out, it was just a software developed by the Knoll brothers and handed over to scanner companies for distribution.
This thing requires fundamental changes in the printing industry. That is, after the birth of two revolutionary technologies in the printing industry, "electronic typesetting" and "printing color separation", PS became an emerging industry - "desktop printing" "A must-have and efficient weapon.
Zhou Zhi asked Li Laosan to look for such companies around the world. Many of these companies are facing financial difficulties, but they don't need much. Usually three to five million US dollars can completely revive them.
This is how the Noel brothers were. When they were desperate, they suddenly received support. AXA Fund provided half a million US dollars, allowing the Noel brothers to develop the CMYK function of PS.
CMYK is four-color separation technology. Color printing actually mainly uses four colors and is superimposed on four printings.
This function that Zhou Zhi requested the Knoll brothers to develop is to automatically identify and decompose a color photo into four monochrome pictures, and then send each picture to an inkjet printer. After four inkjet printings , you can get a color print.
After the successful development of this technology, PS has sealed its position as the king of image processing.
The Noel brothers burst into tears of gratitude and called Li Laosan an "angel investor." As a result, by accident, the AXA Fund that Li Laosan represented became a famous "angel fund" in the industry.
When Zhou Zhi heard about this, he couldn’t help but laugh and cry. Is this how angel investment came about in this life?
Because of their extremely accurate investment vision, the two people's assets increased by leaps and bounds, and they raided the world. This gave Zhou Zhi some confidence when facing Lin Wanqiu of Haitong Auction House.
Of course the uncle and the third lady didn’t know how much they had done together outside. After hearing what Zhou Zhi said, the uncle smiled and said: "When the benevolent and righteous people in ancient times talked about their life career, it was to cultivate Qi. Zhiping, with this kind of mentality, I should give you a toast." After that, he picked up the wine and said, "Xiao Li, let's go together."
This glass of wine is very meaningful. It means that the old Xu family has officially accepted this son-in-law.
After drinking this glass of wine, Li Laosan smiled and said: "Originally, my father should come to visit the two elders this time, but he is too busy in the capital, but the eldest brother and the second brother will both come to Shudu. By then, We’ll come over again to visit you.”
“My parents agree. You must be very busy. We will meet sooner or later anyway, so you don’t need to worry about these customs." My uncle was very happy: "Your eldest and second brothers are both promising young people. It would be great to meet them. What business do they have in Shu?" ”
“Big brother represents UNI The CODE organization came to Shu University to discuss in-depth cooperation. "Li Laosan glanced at Zhou Zhi: "Although the news is very popular now, and the Hanwen font library has been bundled into WINNT, it seems that I am still not satisfied."
“No, no "I'm satisfied, but the first phase of Hanwen's font can only be regarded as completing the most basic work, and there are still many things to do later," Zhou Zhi explained: "First of all, the font is just a tool. With this tool, there are countless application scenarios and applications." It matches.”
"Secondly, this tool cannot be said to be perfect at present. It only contains 36,952 Chinese characters, which is far from meeting the requirements of the publishing industry and the collection of ancient books."
"It is already amazing." My uncle said: "According to I know that the Jingyang Municipal Party Committee Office, the Office of Culture and History, the Archives, and the Jingyang Newspaper have all made reports and changed their systems. "
"There is also the Civil Affairs Bureau." added.
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Actually, there are banks and post offices. These are big users of the system, but their systems are mainly UNIX systems. Fortunately, from the beginning, we made this font available in Windows, UNIX, and Apple. The systems are all compatible. In addition, the communication industry such as paging stations and Chinese display pagers have been put into use."
"This is a great thing for the country and the people," my uncle said with a smile.
"But there is still a lot of follow-up work, and we also need Brother Li's guidance." Zhou Zhi said.
“The second brother is here to look for cooperation opportunities.” Li Laosan continued after introducing the purpose of the eldest brother: “The Heheng Supermarket we opened in Shudu has performed amazingly. The turnover in the latest quarter has been It surpassed the Hong Kong Island headquarters and the momentum continued unabated, so my father asked my second brother to come and inspect it. Next. "
"This is mainly due to the latest POS system," Zhou Zhi said: "The most efficient equipment to improve the settlement speed is the stripe coding printing and scanning system."
"How do you do it. Do you even know this?" My uncle thought this child was too evil.
Li Laosan smiled and said: "This is originally the idea of Jiuzi. In fact, the barcode was invented very early. Although there was no automatic recognition function at that time, it has been widely used as a manual identification mark for goods."
"The use of automatic identification scanners was invented in 1974, and it is now very mature. Its inventor, Wu Deland, also won the National Science and Technology Award awarded to him by the United States last year."
"Although it is just Like Hanwenku, Wudeland licenses the patent to everyone for free use, but the barcode we use is different from the original barcode. We use our own CODE128 barcode," Li Laosan said with great enthusiasm. proud.
“Oh? What’s the difference?”
(End of this chapter)