In fact, the ammunition has become sufficient. With the successful launch of Microsoft's Windows NT, it announced the official arrival of the Internet era, which led to a crazy rise in stocks.

Especially this time, Windows NT also adopts Unicode as the standard, integrating the mainland's gb18030, Hong Kong Island's hkscs and Taiwan Island's big5, leaving a huge space for expansion and solving the fundamental problem of character applications once and for all.

This application is ahead of its time, because today, when system storage units are expensive, Windows NT loads the Han text library, which requires a large storage space and takes up 2M more memory during operation. Systems with lower configurations may suffer from lags.

Later generations may find it very funny, but for a computer with only 16 MB of memory, the difficulty is indeed very real.

This problem is actually easy to solve. According to Zhou Zhi's suggestion, Hanwen Font Library first accommodated all the Chinese characters in the first issue of the font library under the same encoding rules, and then packaged them into three packages, the so-called "Mainland Version".

"Hong Kong version" and "Taiwan version" are available for users to choose independently. They can install all or part of them.

In the future, as the performance of storage devices improves and prices decrease, and storage space is no longer the bottleneck restricting software development, it will be possible to combine the three into one and simply install the Hanwen large font library.

This is a huge change in thinking. From first solving the problem and then fixing it one by one, it has changed to first proposing an overall plan from a high level, and then making some deletions and adjustments based on the actual situation. When the time is ripe in the future, these can be

Deleting, adjusting and adding it into a whole is a perfect solution.

Therefore, Microsoft's stock price has risen even more than in the previous life, and its important partner IBM has also become a related beneficiary.

And Zhou Zhi and Li Laosan, who started planning two years in advance, have completely ushered in the feast of the IT era.

With a large amount of money to make a profit, there are many ways to operate.

There are many software in later generations, and those who can know their names are actually survivors after the great waves.

For example, Oracle's Oracle database, Adobe, which developed the famous image processing software Photoshop, and Quantum Information Data Company, the predecessor of AOL.

Many companies are now just small workshops and studios. When Photoshop first came out, it was just a software developed by the Knoll brothers and handed over to scanner companies for distribution.

This thing requires fundamental changes in the printing industry. That is, after the birth of two revolutionary technologies in the printing industry, "electronic typesetting" and "printing color separation", PS became an essential and efficient weapon for the emerging industry - "desktop printing"

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Zhou Zhi asked Li Laosan to look for such companies around the world. Many of these companies are facing financial difficulties, but they don't need much. Usually, three to five million US dollars can completely revive them.

This is the case for the Noll brothers. When they were desperate, they suddenly received support. AXA Fund provided half a million US dollars, allowing the Noll brothers to develop the cmyk function of PS.

cmyk is four-color separation technology. Color printing actually mainly uses four colors and four printing superpositions.

Zhou Zhi asked the Knoll brothers to develop this function, which can automatically identify and decompose a color photo into four monochrome pictures, and then send each picture to an inkjet printer. After four inkjet printing, you can get a

Color prints.

After the successful development of this technology, PS has firmly established itself as the king of image processing.

The Noel brothers burst into tears of gratitude and called Li Laosan an "angel investor." As a result, by accident, the AXA Fund that Li Laosan represented actually became a famous "angel fund" in the industry.

When Zhou Zhi heard about this, he couldn't help but laugh and cry. Is this how angel investment came about in this life?

Because of their extremely accurate investment vision, the two people's assets increased by leaps and bounds, and they conducted a series of searches around the world, which finally gave Zhou Zhi some confidence when facing Lin Wanqiu of Haitong Auction House.

Of course, the uncle and the third concubine didn’t know how much work they had done together outside. After hearing what Zhou Zhi said, the uncle smiled and said: "When the ancient benevolent and righteous people talked about their life career, it was to cultivate Qi Zhiping. With this kind of thinking

Ge Ge, I should toast you."

After saying that, he picked up the wine and said, "Xiao Li, elbow, come and let's go together."

This glass of wine is very meaningful, as it means that the old Xu family has officially accepted this son-in-law.

After drinking the glass of wine, Li Laosan smiled and said: "Originally, my father should come to visit the two elders this time, but he is too busy in the capital. However, the eldest brother and the second brother are coming to the capital of Shu. We will come to visit again when the time comes."

"My father-in-law must be very busy. Anyway, we will meet sooner or later, so we don't need to worry about these customs." My uncle was very happy: "Your eldest and second brothers are both promising young people. It would be great to meet them. What do they have in mind when they come to Shu?"

Business?"

"Brother came to Shu University on behalf of the Unicode organization to discuss in-depth cooperation." Li Laosan glanced at Zhou Zhi: "Although the news is very publicized now, and the Hanwen font library has been bundled into winnt, it seems that I am still not satisfied.

?”

"It's not that I'm not dissatisfied, but the first phase of Hanwen's font can only be regarded as completing the most basic work, and there are still many things to do later." Zhou Zhi explained: "First of all, the font is just a tool. With this tool, there are countless more

The application scenario matches it."

"Secondly, this tool cannot be said to be perfect at present. It only contains 36,952 Chinese characters, which is far from meeting the requirements of the publishing industry and ancient book collection."

"It's already amazing." My uncle said: "As far as I know, the Jingyang Municipal Party Committee Office, the Cultural and Historical Office, the Archives, and the Jingyang Newspaper have all made reports and changed the system. This is the font library."

"There is also the Civil Affairs Bureau." Third Maid added.

Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Actually, there are banks and post offices, which are big users of the system, but their systems are mainly Unix systems. Fortunately, from the beginning, we made this font compatible with the three major systems of Windows, Unix, and Apple. In addition,

There are also communication industries such as paging stations, Chinese display pagers, etc., which are all put into use."

"This is a great thing that will benefit the country and the people." My uncle smiled.

"But there is still a lot of follow-up work, and we also need Brother Li's guidance." Zhou Zhi said.

"The second brother is here to look for cooperation opportunities." Li Laosan continued after introducing the purpose of the eldest brother: "The performance of Heheng Supermarket we opened in Shudu is amazing. The turnover in the latest quarter has exceeded that of the Hong Kong Island headquarters.

The momentum continued unabated. Therefore, my father asked my second brother to come and inspect it."

"This is mainly due to the latest POS system." Zhou Zhi said: "The most efficient equipment to improve the settlement speed is the stripe coding printing and scanning system."

"How come you even know this?" My uncle thought this child was too evil.

Li Laosan said with a smile: "This was originally Jiuzi's idea. In fact, the barcode was invented very early. Although there was no automatic recognition function at that time, it has been widely used as a manual identification mark for goods."

"The use of automatic identification scanners was invented in 1974, and it is now very mature. Its inventor, Woodlander, also won the National Science and Technology Award from the United States last year."

"Although like Hanwen Library, Wudeland has licensed its patent to everyone for free use, the barcode we use is different from the original barcode. We use our own code128 barcode," Li Laosan said.

They were all quite proud.
Chapter completed!