Chapter 1323 The birth of the Linux operating system!
I have to say that the old gentleman's strategic vision is still very powerful. Coupled with Yang Ming's reminders in recent years, in Yang Ming's view, the old gentleman can leave more things to the country in the future.
Just like the old gentleman mentioned now that technologies such as photolithography machines have made breakthroughs and have begun to be used in the military, but they have not yet been used in civilian applications, and the outside world does not know about them.
Yang Ming chatted with the old gentleman until late at night.
At this time, the old gentleman still looked very energetic.
Yang Ming was a little sleepy.
"Mr. Yang, you go back and rest first."
Yang Ming left the old gentleman's place and returned to the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.
. . .
1991 9 Month 30 Day.
Monday.
It was the fourth day that Yang Ming came to Yanjing.
In the morning, Yang Ming had just woken up, and Lin Xiuzhi came over and said, "Boss, Mr. Huo and others are already here."
Huo Yingdong and others are here?
When Yang Ming went out, he really saw Huo Yingdong and his son. In addition, there were Hu Yingxiang, Zheng Yutong and others. They all came to say hello to Yang Ming.
Yang Ming left behind Huo Yingdong and his son.
"Mr. Huo, how do you feel now?"
"Fortunately."
Huo Yingdong occasionally returns to Yanjing Union Medical College Hospital for treatment, maybe because he discovered his condition. The most important thing is that he knows that his father has this disease, so his condition is relatively good now.
However, Mr. Bao is different.
Yang Ming has gone to see Mr. Bao several times this year, but found that Mr. Bao's health is getting worse.
"That's good."
Wait until Huo Yingdong and his son leave.
In the morning, Yang Ming met with other representatives from Xiangjiang.
Among them, there is also the eldest son of the Dong family, whom Yang Ming recognizes as his eldest brother.
Yang Ming had lunch with him, and the Dong brothers stayed directly at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.
In the afternoon, Yang Ming met with representatives from Haojiang, represented by the He family, the Cui family, and the Ma family. Among them, the He family was the fifth son of the He family, whom Yang Ming recognized as his younger brother.
Yang Ming also had afternoon tea with them before these people stayed at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.
During this period, Yang Ming also met with some overseas Chinese representatives.
Among them are Xie Guomin and his son from the Zhengda Group, and Thaksin, Yingla’s second brother.
At this time, many products of the Imperial Group in Siam and even Southeast Asia were handed over to the Xie family, Thaxin and others as agents. In recent years, Thaxin's Shinawatra family has developed very rapidly with the support of the Imperial Group.
Ta Xin hasn’t seen his sister Ying La for some time.
Both brothers and sisters were very happy.
That night.
Yang Ming met Wu Guangzhen and his wife.
However, judging from the situation of Wu Guangzhen and his wife, Mr. Bao's condition may have become serious again.
"How is your father-in-law doing?"
"It's gotten a lot more serious recently, and I have to be hospitalized."
It was precisely because of that that Wu Guangzhen came relatively late. However, now that he is the representative of the Bao family's domestic investment, he will come no matter what.
"I'll go see Mr. Bao again in Xiangjiang later."
. . .
Have a night's rest.
Early the next day.
When Yang Ming woke up, it was already the National Day of 1991.
Yang Ming got up, washed up, had a simple breakfast, and then went to attend the National Day ceremony.
In fact, in Yang Ming's view, except for special times, other National Days are pretty much the same, except for holding celebrations and then attending state banquets.
After attending the event, Yang Ming returned to the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.
Many VIPs may be tired that day.
Early the next day.
When Yang Ming got up, many distinguished guests invited to the National Day came to say goodbye to Yang Ming.
Including representatives from Xiangjiang, Haojiang, and even overseas.
Yang Ming didn't go back so quickly.
Among them, in addition to cooperation on rocket launch bases, preliminary negotiations also need to be conducted.
On October 1991, 10.
Yang Ming has already discussed cooperation with relevant departments.
Among them, Imperial Aerospace Group will independently select a suitable place in the northwest to build a rocket launch tower.
In other words, this time Yang Ming came to Yanjing to attend the National Day ceremony, his main task has been completed.
1991 10 Month 5 Day.
in the afternoon.
Yang Ming went to see Mr. Jiang and the old man again.
On the morning of October 10th.
Yang Ming left Yanjing and flew directly back to Xiangjiang.
At this time, Yang Ming had just returned to Xiangjiang, and he heard another thing that made him very happy.
The Linux operating system was born.
This is also successfully researched by the Silicon Valley branch and the Xiangjiang branch of the relevant technology companies of the Empire Group.
Historically, in the 20s, the performance of computer hardware continued to improve and the PC market continued to expand. The main operating systems available for computers at that time were Unix, DOS and MacOS.
Unix is expensive and cannot run on PCs; DOS is crude and its source code is strictly kept secret by software manufacturers; MacOS is an operating system specially used for Apple computers.
At this time, the field of computer science urgently needs a more complete, powerful, cheap and fully open operating system.
Since there are few typical operating systems for teaching use, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a Chinese professor in the Netherlands at the time, wrote an operating system called MINIX in order to teach students about the inner workings of the operating system.
Although MINIX is good, it is only a simple operating system for teaching purposes, not a powerful practical operating system. However, the biggest advantage is that the source code is open.
Computer students all over the world study the MINIX source code to understand the MINIX operating system running on the computer. Linus Torvalds, a second-year student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, is one of them.
On the basis of absorbing the essence of MINIX, Linus wrote his own Linux operating system in 1991, version Linux0.01, which marked the beginning of the Linux era.
He used the core of Unix, removed the complicated core programs, rewritten it into an x86 system suitable for general computers, and put it on the Internet for everyone to download. In 1994, he launched the complete core Version 1.0. At this point, Linux has gradually become a fully functional and stable operating system and is widely used.
However, in this world, Yang Ming had already proposed for them to study this Linux operating system from beginning to end.
In other words, this operating system and Windows system were first proposed by Yang Ming.
However, Windows systems have long been commercialized.
The Linux operating system is open source. Even then, the patents of these codes belong to the technology branch of the Imperial Group.
In other words, compared to the Windows system, the Linux operating system can be provided to the whole world for free. In fact, it is of great significance to the development of the global Internet and software.
"Boss, since this Linux operating system is available to the world for free, why are you so happy?" Lin Xiuzhi asked strangely.
"Sometimes free is the most expensive. In fact, for me, although this can be used by global companies for free, it is still very beneficial to promote the development of the global Internet and global software to a certain extent."