"Ahem, Mr. Li!"
At this time, Kochka next to him saw that Li Xiucheng was a little stunned and quickly reminded him.
Li Xiucheng came back to his senses, smiled nonchalantly, and then said to Harlotem: "Mr. Harlot, please tell me about the progress of the Taichu project!"
"Boss, I'm very proud!"
Harlotem bowed slightly politely, and then said: "Because you once ordered us to study the system borrowed from Microsoft, so I made some summaries.
In essence, Microsoft's interface system is nothing more than a combination of the UNIX system and the Xerox inspection interface.
It’s just that they did a great job of combining the two.
However, there are still many limitations and shortcomings. For example, they take up a lot of resources, have very poor game support, are slow and prone to crashes.
Of course, it also has many advantages.
For example, keyboard shortcut functions, multi-tasking parallel processing functions, window structures and forms with a strong sense of hierarchy, etc.
After a lot of operations and analysis by our team, based on the advantages and disadvantages of these Microsoft systems, we have preliminarily determined the core operation logic construction design of our Taichu system. "
"Oh, yes!"
Li Xiucheng's eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to say: "Tell me about it!"
To a layman, Harlotem's words may sound like they are just a design proposal, but they are still far away from the actual product. There is nothing worth saying at all.
But in fact, Li Xiucheng knows very well, what is the most important thing about a good system?
It is the bottom layer, the system core, and the logical performance!
Just like Microsoft's WINDOWS products, from win1.0 in 1985 to the current WINNT, every generation of system has more or less shortcomings. Just like what Harlotem said just now, all gamers will complain that the windows system is rubbish. , but their sales are not bad.
why?
Because their cores and underlying operating mechanisms are excellent, the convenience and help they bring to people at work can completely cover up those minor flaws.
Then next year, WIN95 came out, and Microsoft spent $300 million to promote it, which exploded sales and established Microsoft's dominance.
He doesn't expect his Taichu to quickly catch up with Microsoft, because this is simply unrealistic. Others have ten years of technology and talent accumulation.
And the company here has just opened. How many technical personnel are there in the hundreds?
It sounds like a lot, but when compared with others, he is as shabby as a beggar.
Therefore, after hearing that Harlotem had designed the underlying operating logic, he immediately became interested.
Facing Li Xiucheng's curious eyes, Harlotem also perked up, crossed his hands on his chest, and began to introduce himself confidently.
"The interface operating system is a combination of the kernel and the interface. The interface is equivalent to the human appearance. It is easy to handle and modify, so there is no rush.
The important thing is the kernel. The kernel is equivalent to the human brain. How to control the operation of the hardware more effectively is the key.
After studying WINDOWS, it is not difficult for us to realize the functions that the other party has.
The other party's weakness lies in insufficient control of the memory operating mechanism.
For example, in multiple versions of the system before NT, when multitasking was running, the system would allocate hardware resources to the software that was opened first. This caused multitasking to become a burden and wasted hardware resources.
This problem has been improved in NT, and because the emergence of protected mode allows a single program to crash without affecting the overall system stability.
So we designed two plans.
The first solution is to develop our abstraction layer based on the UNIX microkernel, and then add components and graphical interfaces to quickly develop an operating system.
The second option is to learn from the UNIX microkernel code and LININUX macrokernel code to reconstruct it, design a new kernel architecture, and then develop the operating system. "
At this point, Harlotem glanced at Li Xiucheng who was listening carefully and said: "The difference between the two options is the speed, and then the risk. After all, the risk of using a mature slave core is much smaller, and Creating a brand new core means that no one can guarantee the existence of this position, and it is possible that all the money invested will be wasted.
But it also means that its upper limit is unknown. It may be higher than the sky or thinner than paper. "
Hearing this, the corners of Li Xiucheng's mouth twitched.
Good guy!
This is typical resignation!
When he came back to his senses and saw Harlotem staring at him with bright eyes, Li Xiucheng touched his forehead and pondered: "Then, how long will it take to rebuild a new core?"
“It’s easy to write a new kernel, it only takes one more year, but it requires testing and finding the best and most efficient method.
It will take three years at the earliest!
Hmm~
Of course, it requires a lot of manpower. "
Li Xiucheng frowned, so troublesome?
However, a brand new kernel that may have no upper limit is still very attractive to him. After all, the experience of the previous life has proved that the UNIX kernel cannot defeat WINDWS.
If there is a brand new, very efficient and easy-to-use kernel to help, coupled with my own foresight, can history be changed?
At this moment, Li Xiucheng was a little moved.
However, success makes people happy, but what if it doesn’t succeed?
Wouldn't it be empty-handed?
It's worth weighing whether to do it or not...
What the hell.
Suddenly, Li Xiucheng realized that he was a reborn person, how could he be so low-spirited!
What you have to do is to create history!
Adults don’t choose, they want them all!
After thinking clearly, Li Xiucheng said to Harlotem with certainty: "Carry out the two plans together!"
"ah?"
"Can we do this together?"
"Really?"
This time it was Harlotem and the others who were surprised. Harlotem couldn't help but said: "Boss, we are going to carry out two projects together. This cost is not small. The company has no income. Can you afford it?"
Next to him, Kechika heard a black line.
Damn it, you don’t even know how to deal with the boss if you speak tactfully.
He quickly made up for it: "If Mr. Li is too stubborn and can't concentrate, both ends will be delayed, and it won't be good if he can't achieve results!"
Li Xiucheng looked funny. He was indeed a programmer, and he spoke so directly.
But he didn't mind.
He clapped his hands and said: "You can rest assured about money, I can still afford normal R&D and staff expansion.
Moreover, the company cannot remain without income.
In addition to R&D, we also have other projects, right? "
Hearing this, everyone's eyes fell on Dexihan, who shrugged and said nothing.
Li Xiucheng ignored their little moves and continued, "That's what I planned. The two projects will be carried out together, but it will not be done by one company alone."
