In the afternoon, a sufficient number of X-architecture keyboards were produced in the factory. Wang Yong arranged for workers to start assembling computers, and gave them to the office building first.

Just so happened that the car sent by the company brought all 20 prospective employees of South China University of Technology to the company. Looking at these brand new computers, these young people were so excited that they wanted to try out the dolphin computers made by the company immediately.

Jiuwu's computer is definitely a high-tech product. Although Dolphin Technology is just an assembler, it is rare. Don't you see the famous Great Wall, Lenovo, Founder and other technology companies are just assemblers. These prospective employees have reason to be proud of the company.

A computer that has just left the factory has nothing, which is equivalent to a waste, and various tools and software must be added.

At this time, the young people, including Liu Meijuan, were stunned.

This is because Liu Meijuan is just a simple and easy task and has security protection, and has made a re-formulation of the BIOS chip. In this way, naturally, there is no operating system suitable for this unrecognizable dolphin computer.

The same is true for Windows 95, the latest graphics operating system launched by Microhard in August this year.

In other words, Liu Meijuan has to pay for her willfulness. This seemingly powerful dolphin computer is equivalent to useless waste.

The computer operating system is based on BIOS chips and central processing units, which manage computer peripheral devices, including hard disks, sound cards, graphics cards, caches, memory, floppy drives, optical drives, etc., so as to act as the master of the computer. Various application software and tool software can only run on the operating system platform.

If the computer operating system cannot recognize and operate the BIOS chip, it cannot be installed.

Liu Meijuan doesn't understand software very much, and she feels deeply guilty for causing such serious consequences.

"Oh! Why is this happening? It seems that I have to modify the computer motherboard and re-use the public version of the BIOS chip settings." Liu Meijuan sighed and muttered to herself in dejected manner.

Liu Meijuan, who originally wanted to recruit talents and was ambitious to do something big, was hit by this. Her frustration was simply unbearable. She was ashamed of her face.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong stood up confidently and spoke, while comforting Liu Meijuan.

"Director Liu, you don't have to be pessimistic. In my opinion, this is a good thing.

I just learned system software and have a lot of research on the open source software Linux operating system.

I think we can develop a computer operating system specifically for our dolphin computers.”

"Developing a computer operating system? I heard that an operating system has a code of more than 100,000 or even more than one million lines, which is a huge project, and an operating system without application software support is no different from waste."

Liu Meijuan was still unhappy. She thought what Zhang Zhidong said was completely brainless comforting words.

"Hahahaha! Director Liu, in the field of electronic hardware, you are the well-deserved NO1 in China, but in the field of software, I have to say that you are a completely a layman.

The reason why the micro-hard Windows operating system has such huge code is that it must be compatible with previous electronic hardware and application software, which makes it snowball like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. Every time it updates a version, it will add a lot of code.

But our dolphin computer is completely new, without any historical burden, we start from scratch.

Besides, Director Liu, you have modified the BIOS settings and only supports a single peripheral device, which saves us a lot of code. You must know that in order to be compatible with all electronic hardware, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to achieve it.

As for application software, today's computer is an office computer, and how many application software we have, we can develop it ourselves and gradually enrich it in the future. We can also find ways to be compatible with existing application software, such as a large number of game software."

Zhang Zhidong's words were full of practical information and explained with a reasonable and well-founded manner that the operating system is not impossible to be high-level, but can be fully achieved.

Liu Meijuan also made the same common sense mistake as ordinary people. She thought that computer operating systems were very difficult, otherwise China would have had its own domestic operating system long ago.

In fact, it is really difficult to say that computer operating systems are difficult. First of all, you must know the BIOS chips and the central processor well. Only in this way can you effectively manage the hardware resources of your computer.

The company must also have a response to the influence that makes all computer peripheral device manufacturing companies willing to develop drivers according to your rules.

China is inherently deficient in these two points, because Intel and AMD's X86 architecture series chips cannot be opened to Chinese companies.

Computer peripherals will not listen to a Chinese company without any influence.

Although BIOS chips are recognized standards for compatible machines, most companies only know the public version of the data interface standard of this industry. Its real instruction set and setting standards are all secrets of computer manufacturers, and Chinese companies do not know it.

Therefore, Chinese companies do not have the ability to develop underlying technologies for operating systems, so almost all domestic operating systems use LINUX underlying architecture for in-depth development.

Doesn’t China want to have its own domestic operating system with complete intellectual property rights? Is LINUX really that good? It’s just that they are the only mature choice to compete with the Windows operating system.

It’s not that I don’t want it, but that I can’t!

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This time, Zhang Zhidong was ambitious and suggested: "Director Liu, as you said, we should use the underlying architecture of the UNIX operating system that has passed the patent protection period to develop a closed-source operating system that belongs entirely to our own."

According to the International Patent Protection Law, software copyright patents only have a patent protection period of 20 years, while UNIX operating system was first developed by Bell Labs in 1969. In other words, its underlying architecture has long passed the patent protection period.

Then the computer operating system developed by Dolphin Technology based on UNIX's underlying architecture does not infringe on patent rights, and can also choose to close source and not open source code to the outside world.

Of course, there are many benefits to doing this. The first thing is security. Computer hackers do not know your rules, and they cannot create viruses, or exploit operating system vulnerabilities to invade any dolphin computer.

Its typical representative is Apple's macos operating system, which is also a UNIX-based computer operating system. It is a completely closed source operating system and has always been known for its stability and security.

In fact, the micro-hard DOS system is also a Windows system, and its real source is also based on UNIX.

Why do we have to use UNIX as the underlying architecture? This involves standards. The interface standards for computer peripheral devices are set by Bell Labs, because many computer technologies and peripheral devices were invented by him.

Of course, Liu Meijuan wants to have a closed-source operating system that belongs entirely to Dolphin Technology, but she doesn't understand software technology, so she lacks confidence. "Sir Zhang, can we really do it?"

"It's totally OK, Director Liu, I can guarantee you that with us, we can develop a practical closed-source operating system." Zhang Zhidong nodded and answered affirmatively.

Liu Meijuan received Zhang Zhidong's affirmative reply. She immediately felt refreshed and completely regained her motivation. She said loudly: "Okay! Manager Zhang, now I will appoint you as the director of the Dolphin Operating System R&D project of our company. You can tell me what you need."

Zhang Zhidong was very excited when he heard this, but in a blink of an eye he spread his hands and said with a bitter face: "Director Liu, we can't develop it with empty hands! At least we have to have a computer!"

Zhang Zhidong's face-changing technology finally made Liu Meijuan, who was in a good mood, laughed happily, "Haha! This is easy, I will change the settings of the motherboard BIOS chip, and then we can install the Windows 95 operating system.

You can discuss the underlying architecture of the Dolphin operating system with them!”

Liu Meijuan was so excited that she could do it. She left these words and rushed to the factory.
Chapter completed!