Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#458 - Uproar

1497 companies! 3589 people!

Professor Yang Zhenjun was somewhat dumbfounded when he saw the list of participants for the Global Computer Conference (First Session) compiled by his assistant.

When Ren Zhong initially suggested the idea of charging for participation, Professor Yang Zhenjun subconsciously believed that no one would be foolish enough to come.

However, the development of events completely exceeded his expectations. Not only was the number of registered participants ridiculously high, but their origins were also extremely diverse.

Enterprises and research institutes from more than 40 countries around the world enthusiastically registered to participate in this conference.

It should be known that registration required sending a registration fee, so these users were definitely not just dabbling, but were truly business clients who wanted to achieve something in the field of personal computers.

Currently, the registration fees alone have exceeded 1.5 million dollars!

If we add the cost of selling materials, this first Global Computer Conference will have an income of over ten million dollars from this area alone!

This is too outrageous.

The key is that this money seems to have been earned too easily.

You would have to sell tens of thousands of computers to earn that much.

Is the world's view of personal computers so enthusiastic?

The popularity of the first Global Computer Conference was something Professor Yang Zhenjun couldn't understand, but for Ren Zhong, it wasn't surprising at all.

After all, when personal computers were just starting out, even the APPLE II, which was cobbled together by a few people in a garage, could sell 2 million units!

This demand is very real. Although Ren Zhong has brought this wave forward by more than a decade, it seems somewhat premature.

But don't forget that the promotion of the television and video recorder industries not only didn't fail, but also allowed these two major industries to shine ahead of time, giving rise to two of the world's leading technology companies.

Now, the popularization of transistor computers is already several years ahead of the main world, and computer applications are no less developed than before the personal computer boom in the main world, especially with the demonstration effect of Dongda University. Industrial applications based on transistor computers have spread to all walks of life.

Computer programming, computer application development, and even computer talent training are much stronger than in the same time and space in the main world. Even if Dongda University alone sends thousands of talents to the computer industry every year, and is constantly expanding its enrollment, with the graduation of computer graduate students, most of them will become computer teachers, thereby expanding the enrollment of computer majors.

The North American and European computer industries, which are developing almost synchronously with Dongda University, have also seen this trend. They have more university resources and train even more students than Dongda University, especially since basic electronics majors are related to computer science.

Many core courses are common, especially core mathematics, physics, and the fundamentals of electronic technology, and analog circuits.

"Where are you planning to hold this conference?" Ren Zhong asked Professor Yang Zhenjun.

The scale and impact are now so large that Ren Zhong had to specifically inquire about it, because he knew that Professor Yang and his colleagues were academically minded and had basically no experience with such conferences.

"Dean Ren, we are also very troubled. With so many people, we have no organizational experience," Professor Yang Zhenjun said with a look of embarrassment. At first, they thought that not many people would participate, and they felt that giving the conference a grand name would be embarrassing if no one came. But when merchants from all over the world responded enthusiastically and several thousand people wanted to come, Yang Zhenjun and his team were a little dumbfounded.

They felt somewhat overwhelmed.

Such a large-scale technical conference seems to be rare internationally.

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

"Alright, Professor Yang, leave the professional matters to the professionals. Next, I will borrow a group of conference organizers from Staff Officer Ye to assist you in organizing the conference. The venue and reception will be left to them. What I need to tell you is about the technical exchange aspects of this conference," Ren Zhong said without being overly critical.

Don't even mention Professor Yang and his colleagues, who have never even seen a pig run. Even he, a modern person who is used to seeing all kinds of technical conferences, technical seminars, and product exhibitions in the main world, would not know what to do without studying how to hold a conference in depth.

It should be known that this is another major opportunity for Dongda University to make a name for itself, no less than a new battle to occupy the high ground in the computer industry competition. Although the early start of transistor computers has established Dongda University's leading position in the world.

Now is the most critical period to launch personal computers, which is equivalent to establishing who is the leader in personal computers. If this conference is successful, Ren Zhong can fix this first influential conference in the computer industry to be held mainly at Dongda University in the future.

Even if the host city may change like the Olympic Games in the future, the convening of the conference and the release of important computer-related achievements at the conference must be mainly based at Dongda University!

Only by doing this can the leader of the information wave in the future be firmly controlled by Dongda University.

This is the world's largest industry in the future. Although it is impossible for Dongda University to eat it all up, the best part of this big cake must be kept.

Otherwise, wouldn't Ren Zhong have crossed over in vain?

"Understood, Dean Ren, you arrange it, and we will execute it!" Professor Yang Zhenjun said sincerely.

"This is a schedule and content for organizing a technical conference. According to the current grouping of technologies, the first day of the conference will be an overall introduction to the core components and main interface standards of personal computers. After the conference, it will be divided into two parallel sessions: software and hardware. Many special technical reports and exchange meetings will be organized according to different professional groups. Some lectures will be given on the courses we need to transfer out, so that foreign counterparts can get started. This will be combined with the interface technical specifications of personal computer software and the software development API interface function library that we provide to ensure that they can complete the product design compatible with Dongda University's personal computers, and at the same time develop more peripherals for Dongda University's personal computers."

"We must carefully study the use of patents. After researching those core patents that cannot be avoided, we will charge patent fees, charged per unit. We can charge less, but we must charge according to the number of sales. Even if it is less, 3 US dollars or 5 US dollars per unit, up to no more than 10 US dollars, we must insist on the legality of this patent authorization. Take this opportunity to hold the conference to implement this. It is best to have manufacturers who are preparing to produce personal computer compatible machines sign the authorization agreement."

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

Opening up technical standards does not mean letting everyone hitch a ride for free.

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

Even USB did not escape.

In addition to the two major computer standards, X86 instructions and RISC instructions, there are also core patents for RAM memory, hard drives, and GPU image computing cards.

Ren Zhong moved the core patent layout of the main world's IT field to the Bright Sword world, basically locking down the two major paths of future IT development. Regardless of whether it is Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) or Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC), the core instructions have been registered for patents.

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In this way, unless the great powers overthrow the entire patent system architecture and stop playing, they will not be able to escape the protection scope of this core patent!

In the Bright Sword world, Ren Zhong has taken the path of the great powers in IT, so that they can basically only follow Dongda's footsteps.

"Understood, Dean Ren, we will strictly implement this plan one by one without any discount!" Professor Yang Zhenjun solemnly assured.

This is not a simple matter. It concerns the industrial layout of the next few decades. From the first day of the establishment of their R\u0026D center, Ren Zhong 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 doesn't even dare to think about how much this authorization fee will be, because he received tens of millions of dollars in income just by attending a meeting. Even if the cost of holding the meeting is deducted, it won't cost much. It is equivalent to recovering several years of investment in the research center in a few days.

To be honest, with the information provided by Ren Zhong, although the IT Research Center now has thousands of people in research, the annual development cost is really not much. Even if each of their researchers now earns several times the average social wage, it is only a few hundred yuan a month. A person's development costs only three to four thousand a year, plus various benefits and office expenses, no more than five to six thousand. A year's investment is only tens of millions of local currency.

Just imagine, if each unit charges $10, and this personal computer can sell millions of units a year, wouldn't that mean that they would recover tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year just from patent fees? That's too scary.

After Yang Zhenjun slightly speculated and calculated the patent fee situation, he was startled again. The future is too beautiful, a little too afraid to think about it!

Looking at the changes in Professor Yang Zhenjun's face, Ren Zhong was a little confused. He didn't have mind-reading skills and didn't know the agitation in Professor Yang Zhenjun's heart at the moment.

"For the software R\u0026D team, you can now incubate several companies. The first company is responsible for the iteration and optimization of the operating system, launching a new version of the system every two years along our CCDOS system to ensure that it adapts to our latest hardware equipment, and also adds some new functions to the operating system. In addition, this company also needs to take into account the development of operating system security software, research and strengthen the security software system of the operating system and the virus search and anti-virus software system, and develop some data storage database software systems and other system software."

"The second company is oriented towards the development of tool software, continuing to evolve the programming performance of dbase and turbo C, making it easier for developers to 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 get started with and learn than turbo C, and is more oriented towards the development of application software. Turbo C mainly takes into account the needs of both software and hardware development. The difficulty in using and learning is still relatively large, so I introduced turbo Pascal to focus on the development of software, reducing the difficulty for computer software application developers to get started."

Ren Zhong didn't care about Yang Zhenjun's inner fluctuations and continued to arrange things as always.

"The third company is mainly oriented towards application development. The main product is Office and its subsequent optimized and iterative versions, focusing on the research and development of office software, forming the office application series that is now standard on personal computers. Then continue to develop other application software for office needs."

"As for other third-party application software, we will do a good job of calling interface functions for the operating system, so that third-party companies can develop it. For example, for entertainment-type game software, we can guide and cultivate a group of domestic computer software R\u0026D companies to develop it. There is no need to invest much R\u0026D effort in this area, and naturally many companies will take the initiative to do this."

Computer software applications are the sea of stars. In the future, there will be endless applications emerging in this area. However, Ren Zhong did not intend to take care of everything himself, but planned to occupy a dominant position in the upstream core key system software, and then preemptively occupy the market after the compatible machine strategy is promoted.

Although later, when everyone reacts, many international companies will definitely try to develop their own system software, and even many companies will research a set of operating systems themselves, but Ren Zhong is not afraid of competition.

When Dongda's human resources concentrate their efforts to accomplish great things under Ren Zhong's influence, he has the confidence to guide this team to develop the best operating system and the most powerful application software in the Bright Sword 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 such a simple computer as the APPLE II in dominating the world is that it can run software developed under the CP/M operating system, including the dBase II database and the WordStar word processing software. This is the source of the APPLE II's fatal attraction to white-collar workers. After all, with computer software, they have the opportunity to realize the so-called primary "digital office", reducing a lot of document modification work.

Now, Dongda's personal computers have all these things built-in. The overall design is more advanced than Apple II. The operating system has better compatibility and functions, and it has entered the floppy disk storage era in advance. The function expansion of Dongda's PC has become very convenient, and it can be transformed into a game console! If someone develops games for him.

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

Ren Zhong has now laid out this big game of computer!

It has already touched the future. (End of this chapter)