1991 Starting from the core

After dialing up to connect to the Internet, Su Yuanshan first sent several encrypted emails to Silicon Valley. Then it connected to the recently established CFide bbs site - CFide. Huiduo is the first FidoNet-based site in China and can be regarded as the first exchange site for domestic Internet technicians. It only appeared in Beijing last year.

What is different from history is that this year, in addition to Shantou, the provincial capital Yuanxin and Shanghai Yuanxin have also set up stations respectively. At the same time, Yuanxin also moved internal non-confidential technical exchanges to it.

In the past half year, in addition to the active employees of Yuanxin, several domestic software companies and some researchers who do not have to worry about phone bills have also joined in.

As soon as Su Yuanshan entered the station, he saw that a new member named Pony posted a comment with the title Heifer.

"The heifer jumps—"

Su Yuanshan stared at this ID and was stunned. After a moment, he smiled and wrote his first reply on CFide at the end of the post.

"Pretty cool."

Soon, the ID named Pony immediately replied: "Hingguo! Who is the boss?"

Su Yuanshan thought for a while, this big guy seems to be still studying, right? Where did he get on the Internet from?

"A person from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, where is brother Pony?"

"What a coincidence, so am I."

Su Yuanyuan replied immediately, a little dumbfounded, thinking that he was going to be a real-time communication software developer in the future, he liked chatting so much.

"Since we are from the same hometown, let me ask Brother Pony a question. Suppose I go from the Tang Dynasty in the East to the Leiyin Temple in the West. Assume that I have to pass through twenty-three countries on the way. These countries are scattered in a random way. What method can I use to get there? Fastest speed through all countries?”

Su Yuanshan threw a question in a bad way and returned to the main site.

On the main website, I happened to see the recruitment advertisement of user QBJ.

I don’t know whether it is the butterfly wings or Yuanxin’s leading role that works better. There are far more software companies in this life than Su Yuanshan can remember. In addition to the earliest batch of companies such as Jinshan, Neusoft, Chinasoft, and UFIDA, there are several more companies. Software development companies such as Huasoft, Shangruan, and Softstar.

As for other design companies related to the chip industry, there are even more - Yuanxin, as an EDA supplier, has piloted small angel investments in four places in China: Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing and Chengdu. It knows the current situation of the design industry very well. very clear.

Although IC design companies cannot be said to be blooming everywhere, at least if you look around you can see buds all over the ground. Therefore, Su Yuanshan decisively moved the IC design team of Yuanxin headquarters directly into the CPU department. The campus card system they designed before was directly handed over to Yuanzhong in Shanghai.

After all, according to the strength of Yuanxin, once there is a fight with Yuanzhong on the Shanghai stock market, there will no longer be a way for those small design companies in China to survive.

After all, Yuanxin is a pioneer of soil, not a plunderer.

Looking at the generous conditions on the recruitment post, Su Yuanshan silently calculated the salaries of Yuanxin employees, and smiled when he found that the other party could not recruit his people.

CFide BBS is said to be for communication technology, but in fact it is more of a place for programmers to chat and talk.

In the old days, according to rumors, Rebus was frustrated and spent half a year on CFide when his business failed in 1997 - I don’t know how he cheered up.

Looking at the stream of flattering posts, especially the CEO of Giant showing off his wealth while recruiting people, Su Yuanshan just laughed. Also posted a main post.

"Is there anyone making a PC video player? I provide the decoding card interface. If not, I will make it myself." - SYS.

After sending the message, Su Yuanshan decisively disconnected and went offline - it was not that he was reluctant to pay for dial-up calls, but that the site had an upper limit on the number of people it could accommodate, making it a real carrot and a pitfall.

…

Zhongxin Special Branch.

In July, after inspecting the special zone, Chaoxin decisively bought an electronics factory that made radios from the factory. Then based on the equipment and personnel of this small electronics factory, he built a new pager production line. And established a research and development department.

Since it is a special zone, everything is handled specially, including universities.

As the leading domestic pager company, Zhongxin has received strong support from the local government and has also received support from relevant schools. Soon after its establishment, it recruited many graduates and interns from SAR universities.

Pony is one of the interns.

At this time, he was looking dumbfoundedly at the message the boss had left for him on the screen, so much so that the technical director came over and unplugged his phone line without even noticing.

"Mr. Xiao, how to solve this problem?"

Pony adjusted his glasses and looked at Xiao Li - said to be a big boss from Yuanxin.

Xiao Li wanted to say a few words about this intern, but he was immediately attracted by the question.

On the surface, finding the shortest path through all points is a typical NP problem - that is, a non-deterministic polynomial problem. If there are few path points, you can directly brute force traverse to get the answer. But if there are many points, then state compression DP will be used. If there are more than 20 like this... you have to use advanced algorithms.

After watching silently for a few seconds, Xiao Li frowned and shook his head: "The NP problem is an ancient mathematical problem. Who asked it?"

"It seems like a big shot named SYS."

Xiao Li was slightly startled. He looked at Pony with a half-smile, "Do you know each other?"

"I don't know him. He calls himself a person from the Eastern Tang Dynasty. I said that I am too, so he asked me this question - is this an entrance exam to enter the forum?" Pony looked at Xiao Li, a little confused.

"Maybe it's just the big boss' test for you. Haha!"

Before Xiao Li left, he plugged in the phone line again, patted Pony on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Xiao Teng, since the boss asked, you should think about it carefully. NP problems are useful in many fields. .”

"Oh, okay."

Classmate Ma Teng adjusted his glasses again and prepared to solve the problem given to him by the boss.

…

The next day, Su Yuanshan collected emails from Silicon Valley early in the morning and then distributed them to the team through the internal server. Just when he was about to disconnect, he remembered the post he made yesterday.

After successfully connecting to the forum, I found that QBJ had indeed replied to me, and there was also a long line of comments (envelopes).

"Is SYS the person from YX? If so, please reply, we are interested."——QBJ

"QBJ, SYS is the one you mentioned. I have seen the source code signature of the great master." - CHENG Yang

"Damn it, is what is said above true or false? LiML will come out and confirm it." ——G·X

"You don't need Lao Li, just give me some money and I'll tell you." ——YX·HeZiTao

"Really? There's a squeak at the back." - JR Wang

The corner of Su Yuanshan's mouth curled up slightly. There was no @at this moment, so he had no choice but to reply directly by naming:

"To: QBJ, yes, just contact the technical department of the disc player factory." - SYS.

"BTW: QBJ, your word processing software is good. In fact, you can consider developing westward. The same goes for your playback software." - SYS

After replying to the message, Su Yuanshan cut off the Internet.

Qiu Bojun's call came in immediately.

"Hello, Mr. Su, I am Qiu Bojun. Is what you said on the forum true?"

On the phone, Qiu Bojun's voice was a little excited.

"Well, yes." Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "We don't plan to get involved in office and entertainment software, so you guys go for it."

"Yeah! Thank you, thank you for your support!"

"You're welcome."

After hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan continued to design the core architecture of MMX.

The reason why he helped Jinshan was not to learn from Leifeng, but because Yuanxin really had no intention of going into office software.

Moreover, the launch of the MMX instruction set also requires the cooperation of various software vendors and even well-known software companies in the market to achieve the best results.

It is most appropriate to leave this kind of matter to Jinshan, who has already recruited Lei Jun.

And WPS, technically speaking, is not inferior to Microsoft Office at all from the beginning - in the past, Microsoft went all the way to acquire Kingsoft, and even offered an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Qiu Bojun in the 1990s. this point. Later, when Microsoft's acquisition failed, it played a trick and asked both parties to open the middle layer and be compatible with each other's document formats.

As a result, WPS, which had just entered the western market, was directly compatible with OFFICE.

Su Yuanshan has no intention of becoming an enemy of Microsoft, but it does not prevent him from giving Jinshan a knife.

time flies.

When Chen Jing and her party ended their trip to Las Vegas, the UMC team also officially returned from the island.

At the same time, CCTV's prime time broadcast of "Spring Story" began at 8:30 p.m.

And 30,000 VCDs also quietly entered the chain of electrical appliance shopping malls that Zhang Ke expanded crazily this year.

——My uncle finally found his life goal this year. He wants to become the largest communications and home appliances boss in the country.

Writing this chapter suddenly reminds me of the time I had sex with Hui Duo at a relative's house in 1997...

In addition, Pony's remark is true, and so is Mr. Qiu's recruitment, but the timing is wrong. Don’t investigate.