Chapter 1820: A mistake
The difference between Zhou Zhi and the others at Sun is that he did not think about the hardware platform at all, but directly worked as an OEM for Microsoft. He first understood the C language technology thoroughly, Then relying on development needs, a C++-based, also object-oriented language, VC, was forced out.
This VC’s work is considered to be in vain. Microsoft accounts for most of the IP benefits, but Clover’s work is not in vain, because they have gained the trust of Microsoft and received a lot of outsourcing business, and in the research and development process. After tempering the team, we made some simplifications on VC and developed a basic language, UC, that relies on the UNIX system and is independent of Microsoft IP packages.
After that, we began to vigorously simplify and develop a cross-platform simplified operating system suitable for UC - the epoch-making MINICOS and its instruction set.
Then the peripheral stalk group was further developed.
"Because MINICOS is based on the UNIX system platform, and the UNIX system is an open source system, there is no patent barrier, which provides great convenience for manufacturers who develop hardware."
"So winclover After players, SONY game consoles, and Samsung digital cameras became the top three customers, major manufacturers began to follow suit, while Samsung and Huahong followed suit. It is logical that after completing the successful cooperation on memory chips, we will use our instruction set and continue to advance into the field of microcontroller chips."
Hu Lidong continued: "But when Sun was developing the OAK language, Lacking these conveniences, and wasting a lot of time in building the platform structure and formulating standard protocols, the entire system has nothing major except being simpler than C++. The difference."
"The Oak language was finally successfully developed last year, but it was early in the morning and late in the evening when the researchers demonstrated the Green operating system, Oak's programming language, and classes to hardware manufacturers. When trying to persuade them to use the Oak language to produce hardware chips, the hardware manufacturers were not very enthusiastic about it."
Hu Lidong smiled: "Overseas. Capitalists in China are all profit-seeking and risk-averse. They believe that the risk of producing hardware products when everyone knows nothing about the Oak language is too great, and similar things have already appeared here. , and there are already several digital device applications developed based on the MINICOS+UC+ basic instruction set, which is already much more mature than the current Green+Oak+ class library. ”
"Although UC was not developed specifically for the microcontroller market, it is still used very well in microcontrollers. This is also the benefit brought by your insistence that UC must be able to develop cross-platforms." Hu Lidong once again expressed his admiration: "At that time, we all thought You were prepared for Apple’s operating system, but you didn’t expect the application prospects to be so huge.”
“In turn, Oak language still costs money. Building a factory with huge investment may also encounter the risk of not being able to enter the market. Unlike ours, which has established a complete ecological chain, and even if it is put into production, it will still compete with us for the market, so no one dares to provide hardware support rashly. , this system was shelved at that time.”
Zhou Zhi smiled, the information industry is actually a very complicated track, and once it falls behind, it will be very difficult to catch up.
He is very happy that he has brought some gratifying changes to the country's information industry, and now he can actually manipulate others in some aspects.
Under pressure, after a three-day discussion, Patrick Norton's team decided to change the goal of their efforts again, this time they decided to apply the technology to the World Wide Web.
They believe that with the advent of the network age, the Internet is evolving toward the same highly interactive vision that they can see through cable television networks.
After a lot of hard work, Patrick Norton led the team to make the final move. After enduring many dark nights and consuming many cups of coffee, they finally wrote a small World Wide Web browser-WebRunner.
However, at this moment, a devastating news reached their ears. The Clover Group also developed a browser, which was powerful and easy to use. "Our web browser is so easy to use, especially the 'Yellow Pages Fuzzy Query' function of the front-end version of the search engine, which has been highly praised by users. Therefore, Microsoft has taken a fancy to our Clover browser and embedded it in it. It’s in your own system,” Hu Lidong said with a smile.
In fact, this Yellow Pages fuzzy query embeds a Yellow Pages search function invisibly into the browser's URL input box. The user enters an address or a string of words, and the browser will send it to a "Yellow Pages Server".
There is a database on the Yellow Pages server that stores a large number of website addresses. The database will list the website addresses that the user is most likely to want to visit based on the content entered by the user, so that the user can conveniently list the website addresses that he or she cannot remember clearly. Find the URL and click on it.
This is actually the original search engine. Behind it is the graph data and data retrieval engine developed by Zhouzhi for the digital library. When used here, it has gained a high degree of market recognition.
“Everyone in the company now says that you are a half-immortal. You are so sure to seize the opportunity.” Hu Lidong shook his head and sighed: “When the graph database and data retrieval engine were established, we all thought that they were for the data library. I prepared it, but it turned out that it could be used like this. I really didn’t expect it.”
Zhou Zhi also laughed: “I was like that at the time. I just wanted to find application scenarios for the data library. You must know that after TNT was invented, it was always used as a dye, and it was used for thirty years until an accident happened thirty years later. It was discovered by people that it can also be used as a highly effective explosive. It was a complete mistake!”
Both of them burst into laughter.
They were happy to make money, but Patrick Norton's team was in tragedy.
If this kid has read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he will definitely roar at the sky with grief and anger: "If there is a Yu, how can there be a Liang!"
Sun's investment enthusiasm has obviously followed Decreased due to successive failures.
Just when Patrick felt that he was at the end of his rope, Sun suddenly informed him that it had received an acquisition invitation from a competitor.
Clover Group is willing to fully purchase all of Patrick Norton’s current research results, including a full set of IP packages such as Green operating system, Oak’s programming language, class library and its hardware design book, and also Willing to pay Patrick Norton a higher salary than he did at Sun and continue to invest in letting them continue their previous work.
This is a bit similar to the "player transfer" in the technology world. Similar acquisitions or mergers are relatively common in Silicon Valley today, and the situation has no choice but to follow the dilemma of SUN and Patrick Norton's team.
After the agreement was signed, Patrick discovered that the Clover Group had extraordinary trust in him. It not only gave him great trust and invested human and material resources, but also invested the core of MINICOS and UC. Licenses were granted to his team.
Of course the premise is based on a strict confidentiality agreement.