Chapter 538 Yang Ming Wants to Compete with Bill Gates for the Windows Operating System

Chapter 538 Yang Ming wants to compete with Bill Gates for the Windows operating system!

Yang Ming established Future Capital in Silicon Valley, and then the first talent he wanted to recruit also came.

This person is Tim Patterson.

Many people may not know this person.

If it is said that the predecessor of Microsoft's Windows system was developed by him, many people may know the importance of this talent.

Yang Ming, Yuan Tianfan, Landon, and Navia are going to his study.

"I am going to set up another company and recruit someone."

Future Capital is his first company established in Silicon Valley, and this company is a venture capital company.

Yang Ming will set up another company, which is related to Windows.

Because Yang Ming wants to compete with Bill Gates for the future Windows operating system.

"Boss, who is this person? Where is he?" Yuan Tianfan asked.

"An employee of Seattle Computer Products, a man named Tim Patterson."

Historically, Tim Patterson was born on June 1, 1956, and he is famous for creating 86-DOS.

The system emulated the API of CP/M invented by Gary Kildall.

86-DOS later evolved into MS-DOS, which became the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.

Back in 1978, Patterson graduated from the University of Washington with honors and a degree in computer science. After graduation, he went to Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer, designing the hardware of the Z-80 SoftCard for Microsoft.

A month later, Intel released the 8086 CPU.

At that time, the standard CP/M operating system could not be used for this CPU, and there was no operating system on the market to serve it, resulting in slow sales for Intel.

To fill this gap, Patterson began developing QDOS in April 1980, developing it by copying APIs from various sources including published CP/M manuals, making it highly compatible.

QDOS was soon renamed 86-DOS.

In December 1980, Microsoft bought a non-exclusive license for 86-DOS from Patterson for $25,000, and obtained the right to sell 86-DOS to other hardware manufacturers.

In July 1981, Microsoft added another $50,000 to completely purchase all rights to 86-DOS and renamed it MS-DOS.

He left Seattle Computer Products in April 1981 and jumped to Microsoft.

After a short period of work, Patterson founded his own company, Falcon Technology, which is Falcon Systems.

In 1983, Microsoft signed a contract with Patterson's company, aiming to port MS-DOS to the MSX computer standard and create an MSX-DOS.

At that time, Microsoft was developing the MSX computer standard using ASCII code.

After Patterson completed his work on the MSX-DOS operating system, Falcon Systems was acquired by Microsoft in 1986, and Patterson joined Microsoft again and joined the Visual Basic work project group.

In 1998, Patterson left Microsoft again and founded another software development company, Patterson Technology, and began to tinker with some inventions as a hobby.

Although this person likes to change jobs and is indeed very capable, he has been unable to escape from Microsoft's palm several times.

Historically, Tim Patterson only started to develop QDOS, the predecessor of the Windows system, in April 1980. It is only March now, which means that Tim Patterson should not have studied it yet, so even QDOS has not appeared, and there is no Microsoft Windows system later.

Historically, Bill Gates almost monopolized the global computer operating system with Microsoft's Windows system, and won the Forbes richest man in the world for thirteen consecutive times and became the richest man in the United States for twenty consecutive times.

It is conceivable how much wealth this Windows system can bring to Bill Gates.

In addition.

Yang Ming is very clear that Bill Gates can succeed.

It is inseparable from the support of his mother.

Mary Gates served as a director of the University of Washington from 1975 to 1993.

She was the first female president of the United Way of King County and the first female chairman of the National United Way Executive Board.

Notably, she worked with IBM CEO John Akers while she was chairman of the National United Way Executive Board.

She was also the first female executive of First Intercontinental Bank.

It was with the help of his mother that Bill Gates obtained financing, because his mother was familiar with IBM's John Akers, so that on August 28, 1980, Gates signed a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for IBM's PC.

He then bought an operating system called QDOS for $50,000, slightly improved it, renamed the product DOS, and then licensed it to IBM.

It was under such circumstances that Bill Gates, a young man who dropped out of school to start a business, was able to become the world's richest man.

However, Yang Ming doesn't like this person.

Since the other party has not started to develop the operating system yet, and has not further cooperated with IBM in the operating system, Yang Ming feels that there is a lot of room for maneuver.

Tim Patterson is a very key talent.

"Landon, your current task is to fly to Seattle immediately and bring Tim Patterson to Silicon Valley for me to join the company I founded."

After Landon asked about Tim Patterson's information.

Landon left here immediately and flew from San Francisco to Seattle today.

After Landon left.

After Yang Ming talked with Yuan Tianfan and Navia.

Yuan Tianfan and Navia left.

Yang Ming stood in the study, looking at the map of the United States.

Seattle is also on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.

It takes only two hours to fly directly from San Francisco to Seattle, which is not too far.

Landon met Tim Patterson in Seattle today, so he can bring him to Silicon Valley to see Yang Ming as early as late tonight.

Bill Gates.

A person Yang Ming doesn't like.

You have to compete with the other party for technology, talent, and even time.

Today, Bill Gates' biggest advantage is that his mother Mary is a colleague of John Akers of IBM, and the two are familiar with each other.

However, at this time, John Akers was not the CEO of IBM. He served as CEO from 1985 to 1993.

In 1960, John Akers joined IBM as a sales intern.

During his tenure, he focused on assembly line operations and resource reorganization, splitting IBM's typewriter, keyboard and printer business into an independent company Lexmark, which was the beginning of IBM's de-hardware.

Under his leadership, IBM's major investment in research has created four Nobel Prize winners in physics, and has made great leaps in mathematics, storage technology and communications, as well as computer computing power.

But during his tenure as CEO, it was the most unsuccessful period for IBM. IBM entered a 10-year period of decline and loss, causing serious dissatisfaction among shareholders.

At this time, he was not the CEO of IBM, but his position was already very important.

Because Bill Gates' mother was familiar with him, she was able to introduce her son's small company to IBM, and IBM bought Microsoft's operating system business.

At this time, IBM's CEO was Frank Carey, the second of the IBM Three Musketeers.

Historically, Frank Carey served as CEO from 1975 to 1981.

He joined IBM as a salesperson in 1948, became the head of the data processing department in 1964, and was appointed vice president in 1967. 1 Revenue of $14.4 billion, net profit increased to $1.99 billion.

In other words, at this time, the real boss of IBM was Frank Carey.

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