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1497 companies! 3589 people!
When Professor Yang Zhenjun saw the registration list for the first World Computer Conference compiled by his assistant, he was a little confused.

When Ren Zhong first told him about the idea of ​​charging for attendance at the conference, Professor Yang Zhenjun subconsciously thought that no one would be so foolish as to come.

But the development of the matter was completely beyond his imagination. Not only were there an outrageous number of people who signed up, but they also came from a wide range of places.

Enterprises and research institutes from more than 40 countries around the world have signed up to attend this conference.

You should know that registration requires a registration fee, so these users are definitely not just playing around, but corporate customers who really want to achieve something with personal computers.

Now we have received more than $150 million in registration fees alone!

If the cost of data sales is added, the revenue from this first World Computer Conference alone would have been over 10 million dollars!

This is too outrageous.

The key point is that the money seems to have been collected too hastily.

If we really want to sell computers, we have to sell tens of thousands of them to make back the profit.

Is the world so enthusiastic about personal computers?

Professor Yang Zhenjun was puzzled by the popularity of registration for the first Global Computer Conference, but for Ren Zhong, it was not a shocking thing at all.

After all, when personal computers were just starting out, even the Apple II, which was made by a few people in a garage, sold 200 million units! This demand is real, although Ren Zhong brought this wave forward by more than ten years, which seems a bit premature.

But don’t forget that the birth of the television industry and the VCR industry not only did not die in the womb, but also allowed these two industries to shine ahead of time and gave birth to two current world-class leading technology companies.

The popularity of transistor computers is already several years ahead of the main world, and computer applications are now no worse than before the explosion of personal computers in the main world. Especially under the demonstration effect of Tokyo University, industrial applications based on transistor computers are spread across all walks of life.

Computer programming, computer application development and even computer talent training are much stronger than those in the same time and space in the main world. Not to mention, even the University of Tokyo supplies more than thousands of talents to the computer industry every year, and the number of admissions is constantly expanding. With the graduation of computer graduate students, most of the graduate students will become computer professional teachers, thereby expanding the number of computer majors.

The computer industries in North America and Europe, which developed almost in parallel with the University of Tokyo, also saw this trend. Their universities had more resources and trained more students than the University of Tokyo. After all, basic electronic majors are in the same vein as computers.

Many core courses are interconnected, especially core mathematics, physics, basic electronic technology, analog circuits, etc.

"Where are you planning to hold this meeting?" Ren Zhong looked at Professor Yang Zhenjun and asked.

The scale and influence are now so large that Ren Zhong has to pay special attention to it, because he knows that Professor Yang and his colleagues all have academic research thinking and have basically no experience in such conferences.

"Dean Ren, we are also having a headache. We have no experience in organizing so many people," said Professor Yang Zhenjun with a cold sweat on his face. At the beginning, he thought that there would not be many participants. It would be embarrassing to give a grand conference name but not have many people come. However, when overseas businessmen from all over the world came to respond, and there were actually several thousand people, Yang Zhenjun and his team were a little confused again.

I feel a little lost.

Such a large-scale technical conference seems to have been rarely heard of internationally.

Although the University of Tokyo has experience in hosting conferences, Yang Zhenjun's team, as the head of the research department, has no experience in this area at all.

"Okay, Professor Yang, leave professional matters to professionals. Next, I will lend a group of conference organizers to Staff Officer Ye to assist you in organizing the conference. The venue and reception will be left to them. What I want to explain to you is the technical exchange aspect of this conference." Ren Zhong was not demanding.

Not to mention Professor Yang and others who have never even seen a pig run, even for a new-age person like him who is used to seeing all kinds of technology conferences, technical seminars, and product exhibitions in the main world, if he doesn't study in depth how to run a meeting, he won't know what to do.

You know, this is another major opportunity for Dongda Computer to make a name for itself, no less than a new battle to occupy the commanding heights in the competition in the computer industry, although the early start of transistor computers has established Dongda Computer's leadership position in the world.

The invention and mass production of the new 8080 integrated circuit chip added new glory to Southeast University.

However, these mainly exist in academia and professional fields and in fact have little impact on the general public.

Now is the most critical period for the launch of personal computers, which is equivalent to establishing a school of thought and determining who will be the leader in personal computers. If this conference is successful, the first influential conference in the computer industry can be held mainly at Tokyo University in the future.

Even though the host city may change in the future like the Olympics, Tokyo University must be the main body in convening meetings and releasing important computer-related achievements at conferences!

Only by doing this can the leader of the information wave be firmly controlled by the University of Tokyo. This is the world's largest industry in the future. Although it is impossible for the University of Tokyo to eat it all, it must keep the best part of this big pie.

Otherwise, wouldn’t Ren Zhong have traveled through time in vain?

"I understand, Dean Ren. You make the arrangements and we will carry them out!" Professor Yang Zhenjun said sincerely.

"This is the schedule and content of the technical conference. Based on the current technical grouping, the first day of the conference will be an overall introduction to the core components of personal computers and the main interface standards. After the conference is completed, it will be divided into two sub-venues, software and hardware. According to different professional groups, we will organize a number of special technical report exchange meetings. We will give some lectures on the courses we need to transfer so that foreign colleagues can get started. Together with the interface technical specifications of personal computer software and software development API interface function libraries we provide, we will ensure that they can complete the product design compatible with Dongda personal computers and develop more peripherals for Dongda personal computers."

"We need to carefully study the use of patents. After studying those core patents that cannot be avoided, we will charge patent fees. We can charge less per unit, but we must charge according to the sales volume. Even if it is less, 3 US dollars or 5 US dollars per unit, and no more than 10 US dollars, we must insist on the legality of the patent authorization. With the opportunity of this meeting, we will implement this, and it is best to let the manufacturers who are preparing to produce PC compatible machines sign the authorization agreement.

In this regard, I will look for some manufacturers to take the lead in signing." Ren Zhong continued.

Open technology standards do not mean that everyone can ride on them for free.

Ren Zhong was very clear about the future scale and status of personal computers, and had already made a good patent layout in this regard. With the improvement of the first personal computer Star I, Ren Zhong had people register patents for the interface patents of keyboards, mice, display cards, memory, floppy disks and even future hard disks, as well as the core technical parts of data interfaces such as ISA/IDE/EIDE/PCI!

Not even USB escapes.

In addition to the two major computer standards, X86 instructions and RISC instructions, core patents such as RAM memory, hard disk and GPU image computing cards.

Ren Zhong moved the core patent layout of the main world's IT to the world of Liang Jian, basically locking down the two major paths of future IT development. Regardless of whether it is complex instruction set CISC or reduced instruction set RISC, the core instructions have been implemented through registered patents.

In this way, unless the major powers overturn the entire patent system architecture and give up, they will not be able to escape the protection scope of this core patent!
In the world of Bright Sword, Ren Zhong has followed the path of the great powers in IT, leaving them basically with no choice but to follow in the footsteps of Dongda.

"I understand, Dean Ren. We will strictly implement your plan one by one without any compromise!" Professor Yang Zhenjun promised solemnly.

This is not a simple matter, as it concerns the industrial layout for the next few decades. From the first day of the establishment of their R&D center, Ren Zhong has directly instilled the acquisition of intellectual property rights into every member of the team. Now, it is time to reap the rewards.

Professor Yang Zhenjun now dares not think about how much the authorization fee is, because he received tens of millions of US dollars in revenue just from holding a meeting. Even after deducting the cost of organizing the conference, the expenditure is not much, which means that the research center's investment of several years has been recovered in just a few days.

Honestly speaking, with the information provided by Ren Zhong, although the IT Research Center now has thousands of people doing research, the annual development expenses are really not that much. Even if their researchers now earn several times the average social salary, it is only a few hundred yuan a month now. In a year, each person can only make three to four thousand yuan. Add various benefits and office expenses, and the cost is no more than five to six thousand yuan, which means the investment is tens of millions of local currency a year.

Imagine if they charge $10 per unit and sell millions of PCs a year, wouldn't that mean they would earn tens of millions of dollars in patent fees every year? That's too scary.

After Yang Zhenjun imagined and calculated the patent fees, he was shocked again. The future is so bright that he dared not even think about it!
Looking at Professor Yang Zhenjun's changing expression, Ren Zhong was a little confused. He didn't have the ability to read minds, so he didn't know how excited Professor Yang Zhenjun was at the moment.

"As for the software development team, we can now incubate several companies. The first company is responsible for the iterative optimization of the operating system. It will launch a new version of the system every two years along the CCDOS system to ensure that it is compatible with our latest hardware devices and add some new features to the operating system. In addition, this company will also develop operating system security software, research security software systems to strengthen operating systems, and virus detection and antivirus software systems. It will also develop some system software such as database software systems for data storage.

The second company is for development tool software. We will continue to evolve the programming performance of dbase and turbo C, so that developers can more easily use these development tool software to develop applications. In addition to these two language development tools, I also have a turbo Pascal language development software tool, which is easier to start and learn than turbo C and is more oriented to application software development. Turbo C mainly takes into account the needs of both software and hardware development, and is still difficult to use and learn. Therefore, I introduced turbo Pascal to focus on software development and reduce the difficulty for computer software application developers to get started. "Ren Zhong didn't care about Yang Zhenjun's inner fluctuations and arranged things directly as always.

"The third company is mainly focused on application development. Its main products are Office and its subsequent optimized and iterative versions. It focuses on the research and development of office software, forming the current standard office application series for personal computers. Then it continues to develop other application software for office needs."

"As for other third-party application software, we can just make the operating system call interface functions and let third-party companies develop them. For example, for entertainment-type game software, we can guide and cultivate a group of domestic computer software R&D companies to develop them. There is no need to invest much R&D resources in this area, and naturally many companies will take the initiative to do this."

Computer software applications are the vast sea of ​​stars, and there will be endless applications in this area in the future. However, Ren Zhong did not intend to let his company take care of everything, but to occupy a dominant position in the upstream core and key system software, and then take the lead in occupying the market as the compatible computer strategy is promoted.

Although it is expected that many large international companies will find ways to develop their own system software and even many companies will develop their own operating systems when everyone realizes this, Ren Zhong is not afraid of competition.

When the human resources of Dongda University concentrate their efforts on major tasks under the influence of Ren Zhong, he is confident that he can lead the team to develop the best operating system and the most powerful application software in the world. In this regard, no one can shake Ren Zhong's authority in this field.

You should know that software applications are the core of the success of personal computers. The key to the success of a simple computer like Apple II, which was able to become popular and dominate the world, was that it could run software developed under the CP/M operating system, including dBase II database and WordStar word processing software. This is the source of Apple II's fatal attraction to white-collar workers. After all, with computer software, they have the opportunity to achieve the so-called primary "digital office" and reduce a lot of document modification work.

Now, Dongda's personal computer has all these things built in. The overall design is more advanced than the Apple II, the operating system is more compatible and functional, and it has entered the floppy disk storage era in advance. Dongda's PC has become very convenient to expand its functions and can be transformed into a game console! If someone develops games for it.

All of this is possible because the interface API functions of CCDOS will be published, so that third parties can develop different application software on this operating system.

Ren Zhong has now laid out the big chess game of computers!

The future has already begun to be touched. (End of this chapter)