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Chapter 0742 Who said fast is meaningless

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Since the mid-1980s, economies with excellent data such as Xiangjiang, Baodao and Singapore have faced the problem of weak exports.

Against this backdrop, Hong Kong Governor Youde actively promoted the Xiangjiang economy to the outside world, and the mainland naturally became the top priority.

Just in December this year, the beginning of this month, Hong Kong Governor Youde led a high-level economic and trade delegation from Xiangjiang to Yanjing to preside over the opening ceremony for the Yanjing Office of the Xiangjiang Trade Development Bureau and presided over the opening ceremony of the Xiangjiang Products Exhibition held in Yanjing.

According to the itinerary, Hong Kong Governor Yud planned to return to Hong Kong on December 5, but in the early morning of that day, he died in his sleep due to a heart attack in the British Embassy where he was staying at the age of 62. He became the only Hong Kong Governor who died during his tenure so far - there should be no later generations.

When Queen Elizabeth II of England visited China in October this year, Governor Yud was still busy working next to him. As a result, he passed away unexpectedly after more than a month, which made the incident more and more sudden.

The position of the Governor of Hong Kong cannot be suspended for a moment. Sir Zhong Yijie immediately acted as the Governor and officially announced the news to the public at 9:25 am on the 5th. All parties also quickly sent condolences.

Ji Pengfei, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office of China State Council, said: Sir Youde suddenly passed away in Beijing, and the bad news came, which was shocked. Sir Youde is an outstanding diplomat, and we have a good public-private friendship. He has made important contributions to promoting the development of friendly and cooperative relations between China and Britain over the years. We are deeply sorry for his unfortunate death. Please express our deep condolences and condolences to his wife and family.

The Prime Minister's Office, No. 10 Downing Street, London, stated that the Prime Minister was deeply saddened to learn that Sir Yode had died suddenly. She believed that Sir Yode was a very outstanding civil servant. He worked tirelessly for the interests of Hong Kong and was still serving Hong Kong when he passed away, which was a model.

Buckingham Palace published a telegram from Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to the acting Governor Sir Zhong Yijie: Prince Philip and I deeply express my grief when he learned that Sir Yode was in Beijing. Sir Yode was outstanding in Hong Kong and served the motherland very well. Hong Kong is extremely important in the next few years, and it is a pity to lose good talents, which is nostalgic.

It is not difficult to see from the reactions of all parties that everyone still agrees with Hong Kong Governor Youde, where the situation is complicated at this stage, - after all, China does not want to contact a clerk, and the British side does not want the clerk to be a fool.

But this accident disrupted the existing running-in situation between the two sides. Especially the British side, there was no suitable successor for a while. You should know that the current Governor of Hong Kong is not the kind of local emperor in the past. It is an errand that is far more labor than nourishment. It not only lacks the attractiveness of oil and water, but also has high requirements for ability and quality.

The experience of Hong Kong Governor Yud after officially taking over MacLeho in May 1982 also illustrates this point. The future of Hong Kong has become the first sharp problem, which directly triggered the stock market crash, the bursting of the real estate bubble, the turmoil of the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate, the accompanying bank bankruptcy, the Hong Kong immigration boom, etc. When this problem is settled, he still has to worry about how to take advantage of the transition period to add some of the British marks to Hong Kong's genes.

Since being able to survive in the position of the Governor of Hong Kong, Yud's performance has certainly been recognized by the UK. It is not easy to find a China League match with it.

The Prime Minister's Office, who was struggling about this, became more and more angry with the internal strife of the Far East interest groups.

That's right, rumors that the Governor Youde of Hong Kong were forced to death by HSBC and Qinhe spread from Hong Kong to the British Islands. The British media's ability to hype gossip is world-famous, and instantly made both the government and the government know each other.

Many banking people in London mercilessly mocked HSBC, "Just this popularity, I still want to fight back to the local area and fly up to the branch and become a phoenix to compete with us?"

HSBC Chairman Chen Bi, who once boasted about "sovereignty with power" in front of British Prime Minister Thatcher, turned directly into a holiday in the last few months before his retirement. The new HSBC Chairman Pu Weishi took office early and began to eliminate the bad impact of various black materials and negative news that were dug out in this round of fierce fighting.

The pressure of showing people's diligence as a victim is not that great. Shortly after attending Youde's condolence ceremony, Nübijian took the lead in saying, "If the Hong Kong government finally decides to reclaim the Hong Kong Telecom franchise, as long as the compensation is reasonable, Hong Kong Telecom will be willing to accept this arrangement."

However, this attitude of reconciliation is of little significance in the near future. Because the corresponding compensation amount is absolutely indispensable, the acting governor Zhong Yijie cannot make a decision at all. In addition, the Chinese businessmen who were stirred up by Chen Bi were also frightened by this fierce battle and do not intend to add fuel to the fire for the time being.

Tang Huan and Governor Youde had little personal relationship, and they did not get any additional benefits from each other. The biggest result of cooperation is that Governor Youde, who attaches importance to higher education, helped the Xiangjiang Performing Arts Academy get on track as quickly as possible. As for the Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park he promised, there has been no obvious progress.

Of course, this is not entirely aggrieved by the Governor of Hong Kong. After the bursting of the bubble, the situation in the Xiangjiang real estate industry was extremely complicated. The Qin and Tang Huan, who were one of them, were also hungry. In order to enhance the internal cohesion of the Xiangjiang film industry, their eyes were aimed at the "Xiangjiang Development Plan" which excluded the cinema from the entertainment facilities, and described it as a powerful enemy that threatened the future of the Xiangjiang film industry, which naturally caused some revenge in the real estate industry.

Even though the death of Governor Youde of Hong Kong was due to the fierce battle between HSBC and Qinhe, Tang Huan could only say sorry. Judging from the current HSBC position has been pushed down from the Xiangjiang altar, this war is very worthwhile. It is getting closer and closer to his goal, and it needs to be more hard.

Reflecting on the failure of Hong Kong Governor Youde to leverage his power and the possibility of subversive sensation in some subsequent actions, Tang Huan decided to prepare for the future Governor. Isn’t the British Prime Minister’s Office still worried about the candidates? Then he invested in that person in advance according to the original information of time and space. If the historical trajectory remains the same, it would be considered as finding a convenient door for himself.

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After the remote control layout in the UK was completed, some latest market situations were faxed from the Fangyuan Computer Headquarters of Mountain View City.

All parties fighting in the personal computer market, which is already full of gunpowder, were so excited that their eyes were red when the Christmas sales season were stimulated. According to statistics from professional IT media, after December, the total advertising expenses of various manufacturers reached hundreds of millions of dollars. This shows how crazy the competitive atmosphere is.

After launching the new generation of personal computers ps/2 with microchannel architecture, ibm widened his eyes and waited for the first imitation to appear, so that he could kill the chicken for the monkey to see.

But the ibm-pc compatible machine manufacturer has long learned the lesson that Compaq had been involved in a lawsuit before. The reason why Compaq was able to escape was because there were loopholes to get into. Now this pit is different. It is covered with nails that are raised, and there is only a dead end if you jump down. Who dares to do it?

Seeing this scene, the blue giant was so proud - he must first settle the country when fighting against foreign countries, and it is just around the corner.

The ibm-pc compatible machine manufacturer, which has always been a technology follower, cannot come up with a counterfeit solution similar to PS/2 in a short period of time, and can only continue to play the old brand - cost-effectiveness.

You should know that with straightforward indicators such as CPU speed and memory capacity, as the same judging criteria, the price of ibm-pc compatible machines can be achieved, which is only one-half to one-third of that of ibm genuine machines.

With its flexible operating mechanism, although ibm-pc compatible machines are cheap, manufacturers can achieve small profits but quick turnover. In contrast, ibm, which has serious bureaucratic habits, has long lived on the huge profits obtained from monopoly, and it is difficult to adapt to such survival rules.

As the boss of the ibm-pc compatible machine camp, Compaq has tried its best to leverage this advantage. The marketing costs it spent are topped by, which is quite a battle of the situation. The results received are also good, and consumers have actually begun to agree with its views.

The argument promoted by Compaq is summarized in one sentence: the microchannel architecture of ps/2 can indeed provide faster speeds, but it has no meaning to users and is not enough to flatten the price gap.

As more and more people began to be influenced by this value, Tang Huan felt a little restless. He threw the documents on his desk with a snap and frowned.

A mere ps/2 would be described as "fast and useless". Wouldn't that faster Fangyuan personal computer be in danger of being stinky?

The main reason why the performance of ibm personal computers cannot be fully utilized is that the mechanism has both advantages and disadvantages - the OEM cooperation model including the division of software and hardware. The operating system ms-dos provided by Microsoft, not to mention the multitasking function, does not dare to make people compliment just because of its own quality.

In fact, the operating system on the ibm personal computer platform is not the only one of Microsoft's ms-dos. Gary Kildale, the founder of the digital research company that Gates snatched the business, has been trying to regain the operating system market. It launched the Intel8086 version of CP/m - cp/m-86 to compete with ibm's designated Microsoft operating system ms-dos.

Although Gary Kildale's degree of approximation of CP/m through ms-dos is infringement, which is enough to launch a legal lawsuit, and has obtained permission from ibm. CP/m-86 logged into the ibm-pc platform, it is not easy for the blue giant to clean up such a thorn.

The buyout pc-dos, that is, ms-dos, is priced at US$40; while the price of cp/m-86 is as high as US$240. In comparison, it is obvious how consumers choose.

Later, Gary Kildale added multitasking features to CP/m-86, trying to convince users that the 6-fold price is definitely worth the money.

ibm does not want personal computers to be too powerful, so as not to affect its lucrative mainframe business, so it further supports Microsoft and enhances the dominance of ms-dos on the ibm-pc platform.

Now, CP/m-86 has been squeezed out and only breathed a sigh of relief, but ibm has been self-inflicted and has been controlled by Microsoft. The operating system has become a bottleneck on its own personal computer platform and cannot use this operating system as those who also use this operating system.

When ibm decided to follow the industry trend and jointly develop a new operating system that supports multitasking - Os/2, the new software performed a bit unsatisfactory.

One of the main reasons why the work is not beautiful is that the engineers from both sides are unhappy with each other. The programmers on Microsoft have easily gained tens of millions of dollars in stocks, while the ibm programmers with dead wages take it for granted that Microsoft, which is not of course good, will not hold on to it.

Under this contradiction, it is very rare to complete the os/2 as scheduled, and there is no way to afford the expectation of perfection. In the end, the operating system is still a shortcoming and cannot be fully discovered.

To be honest, now ibm is being caught by Compaq using "so quick and meaningless". That is to plant melons and plant melons, which is typical worthy.

But Tang Huan hopes that the influence of this value will only rage everywhere in the ibm personal computer camp, and do not spread outside and involve his proud works.

Tang Huan directly approved his opinion to the fax, and then transferred it to the marketing department, asking him to fight back in a targeted manner in product promotion and not let customers be fooled by Combat. As for ibm who may benefit from it, it would be better if he gave it a gift.

What Tang Huan, the big boss, did not expect was that before getting off work that day, his subordinates responded. It turned out that they had a creative idea earlier, namely, Michael Jordan, who became the best player of the NBA, and the title of "Flying Man" he got triggered inspiration.

Under Tang Huan's sentence "Who says that fast is meaningless? It's because idiots like Combat have no imagination!", the marketing department continued the idea of ​​"only speed can fly" to Fangyuan's personal computer.

Tang Huan praised this very much. The next day, he specially invited John Chambers and others to a meeting and said: "We must highlight the significance of performance in this battle for personal computer standards, and then increase the influence of memory costs on the price of the entire personal computer."

John Chambers immediately heard the sound of the piano and realized Yayi: The boss is trying to drive his competitors to the death. You must know that the procurement cost of dynamic random memory chips has risen now!
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