The next night, Xiao Qiang returned to the school where he had been "long farewell".

Although he had only been away from the school for two days, he suddenly returned to the calm campus in the serious and disciplined military camp atmosphere, which made him feel like he hadn't seen for a long time.

In terms of mileage, it only takes a few hours to drive from the military training base to the school. But in order to maintain the illusion that he had to withdraw from military training because of illness, he waited until the night fell, and quietly came to Professor Yang's house like a special forces lurking behind enemy lines.

What he didn't expect was that Mr. Yang seemed to have forgotten that he had already participated in military training, and was not surprised at his sudden appearance at the door of his house. He actually called him into the study immediately with enthusiasm.

"Xiao Xiao! There are two good news, which one do you want to listen to first?" Old Yang said happily like an excited child.

Two good news? There is good news after just two days of leaving?

It seems that I have really good luck!

Xiao Qiang was also surprised and happy, and sat upright: "Old Yang, don't keep it a secret, tell me quickly!"

"Haha!" Seeing Xiao Qiang's impulse, Old Yang smiled proudly, "Okay, I won't make things difficult for you. The first good news is that I won't tell you. You can sit for a while, I will call Professor Xia and ask him to come here. Later, you should listen to him explain it to you."

After saying that, regardless of whether Xiao Qiang had reacted or not, he walked out happily and went to the living room to call.

Xiao Qiang heard Mr. Yang introduce Professor Xia, who is the head of the software department. Mr. Yang originally planned to recommend Xiao Qiang to him, but because Xiao Qiang considered that he was still mainly based on hardware, he did not need to ask him for advice for the time being, so he politely refused.

So, the first good news is software.

It’s no wonder that hardware implementation is always very difficult. In comparison, software is much easier.

Software design is mainly because it is afraid of working behind closed doors. Whether the designed software meets customer requirements will affect the rapid promotion of software. Especially in this era, computers are still expensive luxury goods. In China, only public institutions have the financial resources to purchase them in small amounts.

The software design targets are also targeted at these customers.

This often occurs when software designers do not understand the specific application process required by the unit, blindly design the software, and then the designed software is resisted by the user unit. This creates a disconnect between software and practicality, making computer programming more mysterious and profound, and programmers become scholars in the ivory tower.

For example, Xiao Qiang put forward clear design ideas and requirements, but it does not have professional characteristics. Due to hardware constraints, the software itself is not big at this time. For modern programming experts, it is a piece of cake, and it is not surprising that results will be produced in a short period of time.

Xiao Qiang was still guessing which software this was. Professor Yang had already called back. Before he sat down, he said excitedly: "Xiao Xiao, you are really lucky. Today, I only got the news today that the sixth Ministry of Electronics Industry, our school, and Southern Information Company have made my country's first nationally produced Ethernet LAN system!"

"That's great!" Xiao Qiang jumped out of the chair, cheered loudly, and shouted again, "That's great!"

He was so happy!

In a broad sense, there is no difference between local area networks, metropolitan area networks, and the Internet, but the network coverage is different. The exact meaning of the network is to connect computers together through different technologies and physical media.

Therefore, now a feasible localized LAN system has emerged, and the first foundation has been laid!

Of course, objectively speaking, there is still a world of difference between LAN and the Internet. This is not only the difference in hardware technology, but also related communication protocol software.

The Internet, the noun, vividly illustrates the specific form of computer networking.

A network composed of computers of the same unit is a local area network; different networks are connected in the same city through certain technical means, that is, a city network; and one level higher is the integration of different cities and different networks, and then up, and the connection between national homes.

Therefore, a complete Internet is a large network with small networks connected layer by layer.

The reason why LAN is simple is that it was built under unified planning in the early stages of its establishment, with special cables laid and connected to network transmission equipment, and can be used normally.

Large metropolitan area networks and wide area networks cannot be that simple, and this already involves the field of telecommunications.

Therefore, since it is impossible to lay special cables between different networks and individual users, they use ready-made telecommunications networks to convert data transmission and transmission using large telecommunications switches.

Xiao Qiang wanted to take control of the Internet into his hands, at least, from the moment, it seemed extremely unrealistic.

Through conversations with Mr. Yang the day before yesterday, he knew that the prototype of the Internet has appeared abroad. With the standardization of communication protocols, many universities and research departments have connected their internal local area networks to wide-area interconnect.

However, the Internet at this time was too simple.

Email and text information are the basic characteristics of foreign Internet networks in this era. Compared with Xiao Qiang's memories of his previous life, it is really a place in the sky and an underground.

This is naturally caused by the backward technology.

Xiao Qiang had an idea to build the domestic network into a high-speed network backbone channel through his own efforts, and attract the network construction of neighboring countries to this network.

He has already had a preliminary understanding of the network architecture and knows that no matter how big the network is, it is the service requirements put forward by the superior application layer and the lower service layer. As long as this service layer is in his own hands, in a sense, it is equivalent to controlling the key to the Internet in his own control!

However, he also needs to find a way to bypass the intervention of the telecommunications department.

This is not urgent, but he must proceed step by step. This is very clear in his heart.

After Xiao Qiang was happy, he smiled and said to Mr. Yang: "Old Yang, can this system be sold to the public?"

"It's just used, and of course it will be sold to the public!" Mr. Yang said naturally.

Xiao Qiang was very happy with the success of the domestic Ethernet system, although this project did not belong to him without his participation.

In this era, because of the backwardness of domestic technology, domestic production in general means that products produced domestically have been thoroughly understood by foreign technology.

This does not necessarily mean that we have improved the technology and improved performance. In most cases, the efficiency of domestic products is lower than similar products abroad. It is mainly a symbol, indicating that we have not stopped moving forward due to Western technology blockade.

Many times, this is a gesture, a symbol of indomitableness.

But in special circumstances, having this technology means no longer being controlled by others in key projects!

Of course Xiao Qiang was happy.

Now he has no R&D institutions, no factories, assembly lines, and workers. He can use a large number of existing domestic technical products, so he doesn't need to use his superpowers.

Whether it is practicality or the confidentiality of your own superpowers, it is a gratifying event!

Xiao Qiang was still excited, and there was a knock on the door outside the door. Old Yang's daughter Yang Hua rushed to open the door. An old man said "Yang Hua". Even after saying hello, he went straight to Old Yang's study.

This old man is the old man in summer.

The old man is over 60 years old, his face is still flushed, but there are some old spots. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Xiao Qiang standing up and down, looking at him up and down, his eyes full of praise for the young people.

"You are Xiao Qiang? Not bad, you are young and promising! The projects you proposed have had a great effect on students' transformation of knowledge into practical abilities! These days, the students have devoted themselves to it with great enthusiasm. I haven't seen everyone's such a positive scene in many years! OK, very good!"

The old man knew very well that the reason why the students were so conscious and enthusiastic was that Xiao Qiang's rewards stimulated him had an immeasurable effect.

Of course, he was extremely disgusted with such a situation, and he would not tell Xiao Qiang about the stimulating effect of rewards on students.

Xiao Qiang was praised by him in a series of ways, as if the systematic engineering he proposed played an important role in the school's teaching work, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

In fact, the graphical user interface he proposed is not a new term.

As early as the 1980s, there was a graphics workstation. The original idea was to facilitate engineers to design graphics and visually see the design effect.

The cited to the operating system is Macintosh launched by Apple in 1984.

But the graphical interface operating system that truly supports Intel chipsets, that is, personal computers, has not been born yet (in fact, this year, IBM launched a graphical operating system based on Intel chips. Of course, considering the timeliness of delivery, it is not surprising that Xiao Qiang and others are not clear about it).

It is precisely because of this that Professor Xia appreciated Xiao Qiang's design ideas more, but he was not too excited.

When the domestic computer industry matures and truly enters the people, it will be many years later. The market has long been occupied by foreign software companies.

However, Xiao Qiang did not simply put forward this idea, but also gave a specific direction and detailed explanation of which functions needed to be integrated. This has a refreshing feeling for programmers who are still focusing on the DOS operating system in China, and fully affirmed the systematicity and comprehensiveness of their ideas.

What Professor Xia brought was the interface they designed, which was just an interface and some simple functions. It was still early to use the complete software.

He was very familiar with Yang's hometown. He sat in front of a 386 computer produced by Great Wall Company, took out a five-inch floppy disk from his bag, stuffed it into the floppy drive, and the system started.

Professor Xia enters instructions, and as the program starts, the screen is converted into a graphics system.

There is no lawn background that Xiao Qiang is familiar with, but a blue tone.

At this time, the total memory of 386 was only one trillion, because the DOS system can only continuously manage such a large memory space. One third of them are occupied by the system and can be directly used by customers, with only 640K. If the image background is added, there will be even less things that can be done.

The icons, start button, toolbar, taskbar, clock, everything is so similar to the operating interface in Xiao Qiang's memory in his previous life, but looking left and right, Xiao Qiang felt a little awkward.

He turned around and found the problem: the graphics were too rough.

Computer hardware is the basis for software operation. In the 640-by-480VGA display mode, it is called high resolution today. How can the pattern not be rough?

Moreover, perhaps because of the fact that the existing functional programs are still rare, I don’t know that it was Professor Xia’s student, and the icons designed by him seemed particularly large. It seemed that this way, it could conceal the current pale system functions.

It was indeed very pale. Xiao Qiang glanced casually and made such a judgment.

A drawing program is not much different from what he remembers in his previous life's operating system, and it seems to be a little bit worse;

A text operation program, click on it and it is a notepad, without editing function, and its function is very monotonous;

A clock program..., there is no way, there are too few programs that can be implemented now, and even this clock is used to make up the numbers;

When Xiao Qiang opened a picture playback program, he almost didn't feel happy. It was probably in a hurry. This picture playback program directly called an external program, and even the software sign inside did not have time to change it!

Next is the recording program, which is the same as the picture playback program, and it calls a ready-made foreign program. After Xiao Qiang opened it, he did not try it, so he closed it directly.

Finally, there is the unique "C:\" flag. It quits the operation interface and returns to the DOS system. If you don't re-enter the command line, you can't return to the graphical interface - it's not so much a system switch command, but rather a "EXIT" exit command.

But what else can I do? Xiao Qiang is already very satisfied with the initial effect in just a few days.

"Very good!" Xiao Qiang praised, "Professor Xia is worthy of being the top leader of our school and the software department. This operation interface is very good..."

Professor Xia smiled and said, "This is all done by the graduate students under my command. Because time is tight, I can only achieve this level now. I will distribute some functional programs to various students to design, so that several graduate students can be responsible for the integration. If there is another half a year, I should be able to produce more mature works."

"That's great!" Xiao Qiang habitually prepared to pay, and hand over the goods, but he was stopped by Professor Xia.

"The money you asked Mr. Yang to hand over last time was already quite a lot, and we have just started and felt sorry for it! To be honest, the project you proposed is very good, allowing students to apply what they have learned, and truly participate in a system software. It is very helpful to broaden their horizons and skillfully apply the knowledge they have learned! Not to mention subsidies, even if you can't pay a penny, we are happy to do this project! I came this time mainly because I heard that you are back and let you see if there are any special places that need modification." Professor Xia said sincerely.

In the past, everyone studied hard, and the procedures prepared were also reserved items listed in the textbook, and there was not much exercise. But this time, Xiao Qiang designated the content, requirements, appearance, and the rest for them to show themselves. He immediately discovered the potential of the students. Everyone did their best, and they have worked hard these days to read books, and often took the initiative to ask teachers for advice. The learning atmosphere has improved significantly. Professor Xia saw it and was happy in his heart.

Seeing that the other party was not polite, Xiao Qiang stopped insisting and asked earnestly: "Professor Xia, I don't know if your group of students are interested in coming to our company after graduation? Don't worry, I will definitely hire them with a high salary and will never treat them unfairly!"

Professor Xia's expression became a little ugly.

To be honest, Xiao Qiang's money was thrown out and he gave out a "huge amount of money" to let the software department design a system for him, and someone really moved him.

Compared with everyone's salary level at this time, Xiao Qiang was able to spend so much money to ask the school to help him design software, and he would definitely be willing to invest in the salary and benefits of those who are willing to join his company. Even a graduate student who Professor Xia was taking tentatively put forward this idea to Professor Xia, but he was scolded by Professor Xia!
To be continued...