Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Ren Zhong came and went in a hurry, but he became the most exciting scene of the Global Computer Conference.

Ren Zhong's bold predictions about the future of the "Internet" have made every true computer expert yearn for it. Just imagine that when most people in the world can own a personal computer, and these computers can be interconnected through the "Internet" and conduct real-time communication via text, voice and even images, it would be like a science fiction world that makes people yearn for it.

Although it sounds like a fantasy, personal computers have begun to appear today, and there is also an RS232 interface protocol for connecting other devices, which can connect multiple devices to personal computers. Even two computers can communicate with each other through this protocol.

In the outlook for Todai's personal computer network connection solution, they plan to develop a TCP/IP protocol specifically for interconnection between computers. This connection also requires the implementation of a hardware called a "network adapter." According to the plan, they will be able to achieve localized personal computer interconnection in about two years!
Therefore, Ren Zhong’s outlook and predictions are not just wild fantasies, but new research and development directions that the computer industry at Southeast University has already begun to pursue!

No delegate dared to ignore such a prediction.

Some of them have already begun to fantasize about Ren Zhong’s prediction. If the interconnection of personal computers can be achieved, it will be a completely different subversion for the whole world!

Many industries and products will die out, and many new products and services will be born!
In this regard, if we can keep up with Ren Zhong's predictive thinking, we will not lose our way in the future tide of technological development.

Of course, not every representative has confidence in Ren Zhong's prediction. In their minds, they dare not imagine when the technology to connect every computer in the world can be realized and what kind of technology can be used to connect them.

At present, the world can only be connected through satellite communications, which have achieved global coverage of satellite signals. However, from a technical perspective, satellite transmission is mainly a one-way method. In terms of satellite relay, currently only microwaves and shortwave methods are used to broadcast image and sound information. However, in terms of image transmission, only one-way broadcasting can be achieved.

As for wired methods, what can be transmitted now are voice and telegraph.

Most technical personnel currently do not know when and what means should be used to transmit complex information via computer.

After all, this world of Bright Sword has just reached the technological level of the main world in the 60s, and many technologies were imported from the main world by Ren Zhong.

A lot of theoretical accumulation has now turned into a situation where we have to start with engineering application and then make up for it.

Ren Zhong, by forcing the development of seedlings at Tongji University, advanced the development of integrated circuits by several years, and realized the first generation of integrated circuit computers ahead of schedule, starting the evolution of personal computers more than ten years ahead of schedule.

Under such abnormal development, it is very normal that some people cannot understand it.

There are not so many technical geniuses in this world who have the ability to see through the future.

Fortunately, at this conference, Ren Zhong did not have to face any doubts from anyone. He just painted the correct picture and then left the venue.

For him, there is no need to have any relationship with anyone.

Out of an instinctive sense of caution, Ren Zhong rarely appears in public.

Because if Ren Zhong showed up like this at the University of Tokyo, he would probably have to face a group of people treating him with the same respect as a pilgrim, and Ren Zhong didn't want or like that feeling.

He is self-aware, but it is only because he stands in the middle of two worlds and becomes a technology porter spanning the two worlds.

This is not his ability, it is just his responsibility.

The natural mission of using the technology of the main world to help the rise of Dongda in the world of Liangjian.

The meeting continued. After Ren Zhong's speech about the future, he went straight to the introduction of the overall architecture of personal computers.

The technical experts from the University of Tokyo used the shortest possible pictures and descriptions to present an overview of the hardware and software of a personal computer to the public, giving people a very intuitive impression of personal computers.

At least both Peter and Jack have a very intuitive understanding of personal computers.

Next is the design of the motherboard. This part provides a complete demo of the motherboard design process and component selection. The detailed design circuit diagrams are included in the $999 material. Here is a brief explanation of this material.

Through this concise training, those who are going to engage in motherboard design in the future will have a general understanding of design. They will know how to read materials, how to choose the direction of improvement and how to debug. These are not easy to learn just by reading materials.

Especially in terms of debugging, the current information only provides the most basic popular content, and many things cannot be fully reflected in the information.

More importantly, everyone knows the principle of starving oneself to death by teaching one's apprentice. In these materials, only the most basic parts are given. The masters of Dongda University also share the engineering experience on reliability and long-term stable operation encountered in many research and development processes.

However, for the delegates, Todai fully presented the main contents of personal computer hardware and software design, explaining how to design a personal computer and how to test and verify it.

The computer industry at Dongda University has indeed shown great sincerity, even making the design of a very critical motherboard of a personal computer open source. Not only did they provide reference materials, but they also gave a very in-depth technical explanation at the conference. Experts who have a deeper understanding of computer or electronic product hardware design basically understood the general design ideas of the motherboard after listening to the explanation. After they get the BIOS interface data and the specifications of the relevant chip interface, they can completely design a new motherboard under the guidance of the reference design data!
This means that the openness of Tokyo University in personal computers gives everyone a lot of freedom in designing the size and shape of future computers.

The design of the motherboard has a great influence on the shape of the computer. Whether the designed product will be round or square in the future, and whether the chassis will be horizontal or vertical desktop shape, all of these are given to everyone freely.

If the morning lecture focused on hardware design, the afternoon lecture focused on software design technology.

In terms of content, it mainly focuses on two major contents: peripheral driver design and third-party software application development. The course also gives in-depth and easy-to-understand demonstrations, demonstrating the keyboard interaction protocol and driver demonstration. It uses the keyboard as a peripheral to fully demonstrate how the peripheral interacts with the computer. For customers who need to connect to peripherals such as fax machines and printers, this demonstration is highly referenceable.

After a day of meetings, every representative seemed to be infused with magic and had a truly complete image of the development of personal computers.

In the eyes of these representatives, the technological openness of the University of Tokyo is comprehensive and real. Except for a few key components such as CPU, BIOS, core operating system, memory and floppy disk, the rest of the technology is provided very thoroughly, including the development of motherboards and computer applications. The University of Tokyo has given a very large space for developers of future compatible computers.

Considering that these computers were all running locally, they did not see any chance that the University of Tokyo had left a backdoor to control these computers.

Because of this application development model, no one can predict the future direction of personal computer applications.

Thus, for a computer, tinkering with the operating system will do nothing but crash the machine.

After all, current personal computers cannot be connected to the Internet as described by Ren Zhong. As a result, the original concerns about Dongda's control of personal computers have gradually faded as the technology here has become more open.

The first day of the conference made the delegates very excited, and almost no one missed the group discussions in the following three days.

Because the battlefield moved to the exhibition hall.

During the group technical exchanges, many subsystems or products of Dongda were brought out for demonstration and teaching.

The technical leaders of each project hosted the technical exchanges. Through the display of Dongda Computer-related products and group exchanges of technology, these products and subsystems received very enthusiastic responses from representatives from various countries.

Orders for 8080 core CPUs exceeded 10 pieces on the first day!

As for the computer motherboards of Dongda, 100,000 sets were directly ordered. These two major components of the first generation of personal computers, all manufacturers chose to import them as a complete set.

Not only that, memory, floppy disks and operating systems were also introduced.

Just in terms of applications, 5 sets of the office suite were pre-ordered, while only sets of the dbase database suite were pre-ordered.

Of course, the major players brought in are Vision and GoldenStar, two seed players of the Hidden Dragon Project, who are preparing to make a big splash in the consumer personal computer market.

They have taken up 80% of the market share and plan to introduce this product, equip it with their own chassis and televisions, and then directly start selling it.

Their goal is very clear, which is to capture the first wave of consumer-grade high-end personal computer users!
They unwaveringly followed the path of trade, industry and technology for the great powers.

These were all planned, but after the Global Computer Conference, their choice now becomes a natural thing and has nothing to do with the two founders.

Those who organized this event and attended the meeting were all professional managers and technical experts from the country, which allowed the two founders to push this matter forward without any risk.

From a business perspective, at this stage, when no one has any technical capabilities, directly introducing Dongda’s complete solutions and hardware subsystems to assemble a personal computer has the lowest risk.

After all, you only need to research and match some small peripheral components before you can start launching the product on a large scale in 3-6 months.

Such a fast pace is very beneficial for seizing market opportunities.

If you focus on conquering the consumer market, there is no doubt that this strategy will be fine.

Therefore, when these two leading companies in their respective regions placed large orders, no manufacturer had any questions about it.

This is a leader in the electronic products market, so it is normal for them to take over the early market share of personal computers.

Moreover, the compatible external displays of these personal computers are mainly TVs, which further highlights their cost-effectiveness.

According to their plan, the first batch of consumer personal computers will undoubtedly be mainly for TV users.

Companies like MBI tend to accumulate technology first and then wait and see. They purchase hundreds of sets of components, mainly for disassembly research and matching test experiments for their own products.

According to their layout, they have to at least start customizing a new personal computer product from the motherboard.

And in terms of application software, they want to go beyond just office software, they want to see if some commercial software can be ported to personal computers, so as to impress those business customers who now need to buy expensive transistor computers, and allow these high-value business customers to replace transistor computers with personal computers!

This is exactly what they are planning. If MBI can achieve a replacement for personal computers for commercial users who now spend tens of thousands of dollars, then it will have found a new commercial market for personal computers. This way, while others sell personal computers for more than a thousand dollars, MBI can sell them for tens of thousands of dollars with the software based on the hardware selling for more than a thousand dollars!
Of course, it is called the customized software service.

MBI is not a client of those small manufacturers. It does not need and is unwilling to fight with them at the low level of price war to compete for the highly homogeneous home market.

It is obvious at a glance that a large number of compatible machines will appear in the market in the future, many of which are low-level products assembled with Dongda's core components. Their sources of goods are the same and their costs are basically the same. The competition in the future will be about reducing channel costs and after-sales costs.

Since everyone can see the opponent's cards, when a price war occurs, the worst-case scenario of both sides suffering losses will basically occur.

MBI doesn't want to do anything like this.

Vision Company does not know now that their first secretly imagined competitor, MBI, has chosen to compete in a different field.

They withdrew from the competition in the home PC compatible machine market and instead targeted business customers.

However, for Vision, no matter how MBI responded, their mission was to launch their own brand of personal computers to the market as soon as possible. So after placing the order, they received hundreds of sets of samples and hurried back to North America, ready to concentrate all their efforts on completing the design of the first assembled computer.

Of course, open standards are open, but Tokyo University has never said that the authorization of related patents is free. Therefore, during the first Global Computer Conference, manufacturers who signed contracts to introduce Tokyo University's core components and prepare to develop compatible computer businesses signed a large number of patent licensing agreements with Tokyo University's IT Technology Research Center.

According to the requirements of the agreement, Dongda's software authorization and patent authorization are not exclusive. Dongda chose to reject the requests of some companies for regional exclusivity and attempts to monopolize the market.

This time, the computer department of Tokyo University intends to promote personal computers globally. Regional monopoly is not conducive to the promotion of personal computer standards and is therefore not allowed.

So after some fierce bargaining, for the customers who decided to enter the personal computer market on the spot, they all signed patent licensing agreements with Dongda, confirming that they would obtain the authorization to use a package of personal computer software and hardware patents at a standard fee of US$10 per computer.

The computer science department of Tokyo University suddenly had its first bumper harvest.

(End of this chapter)