I lost my vegetative state, and I became the richest man in the world

Chapter 539 Yang Ming wants to compete with Bill Gates for the Windows operating system!

After Yang Ming established Future Capital in Silicon Valley, the first talent he wanted to recruit also came.

This person is Tim Patterson.

Many people may not know this person.

To say that the predecessor of Microsoft's Windows system was developed by him, many people may know the importance of this talent.

Yang Ming, Yuan Tianfan, Langdon, and Navia are coming to his study.

"I'm going to set up another company and recruit another person."

Future Capital is the first company he founded in Silicon Valley, a corporate venture capital firm.

Yang Ming set up another company, which was related to Windows.

Because Yang Ming wants to compete with Bill Gates for the future Windows operating system.

"Boss, who is this person? Where is he?" Yuan Tianfan asked.

"An employee of Seattle Computer Products, a man named Tim Patterson."

Historically, Tim Patterson was born on June 1956, 6, and he is famous for creating 1-DOS.

The system emulates the API of CP/M invented by Gary Kildall.

86-DOS later evolved into MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.

Back in June 1978, Tim Patterson graduated with honors from the University of Washington and received a degree in computer science. After graduation, he went to Seattle Computer Products Company as a designer and engineer, designing for Microsoft. The Z-6 SoftCard hardware.

A month later, Intel released the 8086 CPU.

At that time, the standard CP/M operating system could not be used for this CPU, and there was no operating system on the market to serve it, resulting in slow sales of Intel.

To fill this gap, Patterson started developing QDOS in April 1980 by copying the API from various sources including the published CP/M manual, making it highly compatible.

QDOS was soon renamed 86-DOS.

In December 1980, Microsoft traded with Patterson for $12, purchased a non-exclusive license for 2.5-DOS, and obtained the right to sell 86-DOS to other hardware manufacturers.

In July 1981, Microsoft added another $7 to completely purchase all rights to 5-DOS and renamed it MS-DOS.

He left Seattle Computer Products in April 1981 to join Microsoft.

After working briefly, Patterson started his own company, Falcon Technology, also known as Falcon Systems.

In 1983, Microsoft signed a contract with Patterson's company to port MS-DOS to the MSX computer standard and create an MSX-DOS.

At the time, Microsoft was developing the MSX computer standard in ASCII.

After Patterson completed his work on the MSX-DOS operating system, Falcon Systems was acquired by Microsoft in 1986. Patterson joined Microsoft again and entered the Visual Basic working project group.

In 1998, Patterson left Microsoft again, founded another software development company, Patterson Technologies, and started tinkering with some inventions as a hobby.

Although this person likes to change jobs and is indeed very capable, he can't get out of Microsoft's palm several times.

Historically, Tim Patterson started to develop QDOS, the predecessor of the Windows system, in April 1980, and it is only March now. That is to say, this Tim Patterson should not have studied it, so even QDOS is It has not yet appeared, and there is no later Microsoft Windows system.

Historically, Bill Gates relied on Microsoft's Windows system to almost monopolize the global computer operating system. He was the richest man in the world's Forbes for [-] consecutive times and the richest man in country M for [-] consecutive times.

It is conceivable how much wealth this Windows system can bring to Bill Gates.

Besides.

Yang Ming knew very well that Bill Gates could succeed.

Without the support of his mother.

Mary Gates was a trustee of the University of Washington from 1975 to 1993.

She was the first female president of the United Way of King County and the first female chairman of the National United Way Executive Council.

Notably, she worked with IBM CEO John Akers as chairman of the United Way's executive board.

She was also the first female director of First Intercontinental Bank Corporation.

It was with the help of his mother that Bill Gates obtained financing, because his mother was familiar with IBM's John Akers, so that on August 1980, 8, Gates signed a contract with IBM and agreed to be IBM's PC development operating system.

Then he bought an operating system called QDOS for $5, improved it slightly, renamed the product DOS, and licensed it to IBM for use.

It is under such circumstances that Bill Gates, a young man who dropped out of school to start a business, can become the richest man in the world.

However, Yang Ming didn't like this person.

Since the other party has not yet started to develop the operating system, and has not further cooperated with IBM on the operating system, Yang Ming feels that there is a lot of room for manipulation.

Tim Patterson is a key talent.

"Landon, your current mission is to fly to Seattle immediately, bring Tim Patterson to Silicon Valley, and let him join the company I founded."

Langdon asked about Tim Patterson's information.

Langdon left here immediately and flew from San Francisco to Seattle today.

After Langdon left.

After Yang Ming and Yuan Tianfan and Navia finished chatting.

Yuan Tianfan and Navia left.

Yang Ming stood in the study, looking at the map of Country M.

Seattle is also on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.

It takes two hours to fly non-stop from San Francisco to Seattle, which is not too far away.

Langdon met Tim Patterson in Seattle today, so he could bring him to Silicon Valley to meet Yang Ming as soon as late at night tonight.

Bill Gates.

A person Yang Ming doesn't like.

I have to compete with the other party for technology, talents, and even time.

Today, Bill Gates' biggest advantage is that his mother, Mary, is a colleague of IBM's John Akers, and the two are familiar with each other.

However, at this time, John Akers was not the CEO of IBM, he served as CEO from 1985 to 1993.

In 1960, John Akers entered IBM as a sales intern.

During his tenure, he specialized in assembly line operations and resource reorganization, and spun off IBM's typewriter, keyboard, and printer businesses into an independent company, Lexmark, which was the beginning of IBM's dehardware.

Under his leadership, IBM's major investment in research has produced four Nobel Prize winners in physics and has made huge leaps in mathematics, storage technology and communications, and computer computing power.

However, during his tenure as CEO, it was the most unsuccessful period for IBM. IBM entered a period of 10 years of recession and loss, which caused serious dissatisfaction among shareholders.

At this point, he is not the CEO of IBM, his position is already very important.

Because Bill Gates' mother was familiar with him, she was able to introduce the business of her son's small company to IBM, and IBM purchased Microsoft's operating system business.

At this time, IBM's CEO is Frank Kerry, the second of the IBM Three Musketeers.

Historically, Frank Carey served as CEO from 1975 to 1981.

Joined IBM as a salesperson in 1948, became head of the Data Processing Division in 1964, and was named vice president in 1967. In 1975, IBM's revenue was $144 billion, and its net profit increased to $19.9 billion.

In other words, at this time, the real talker of IBM is Frank Carey.

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