The domestic joint box company was founded in 1984. At that time, the 11 founders only had 200,000 Dragon Country bills.
Even though 200,000 Yuan Dragon Country bills wasn't a particularly large sum of money for now.
However, in the 1980s, 200,000 Dragon Country bills was already a huge sum of money.
In the year 2020 of Chen Fan's previous life, 200,000 yuan was even more valuable than 500 or even 50 million yuan!
At that time, it would be a bold attempt to have such a huge sum of money to develop the front end of computer technology in the Dragon Country. It would also fill the gap in the Dragon Country's technology market.
However, in reality, they had indeed succeeded.
With 200,000 yuan in research funding and the hard work of the 11 founders, the core technology continued to evolve, and all kinds of chips and motherboards appeared.
As a result, with their in-depth research, in 1993, they launched the first domestically developed personal computer: Computer.
At that time, this was a sensational event. With the rapid changes in technology, there would always be some contemporary things that people were familiar with.
After the joint box company spent several years researching it, although some parts were still imported from abroad, it was already very exciting for them to be able to develop a personal computer in the Dragon Country.
When the computer was developed, it received a strong response from the market.
From the sale of the first computer, the sales figures of the Joint Box Company kept increasing every year. 500,000 units, one million units, two million units.
It was not until 1996 that the sales figures exceeded three million units!
1997 was only halfway through. It was only July, and the data was already showing signs of surpassing last year's.
Such a rapid increase in sales and the number of hardware shipped at that time was a very terrifying sales figure!
Three to four million units! This was the amount sold in a year. Furthermore, at that time, research and development were expensive, and the cost of various hardware facilities was high.
In that era, a computer with a genuine Win system was worth at least 10,000 yuan, and a top-tier computer with a high-end configuration was worth about 20,000 yuan.
Of course, at that time, this did not include the hardware configuration of the enterprise level server.
Even so, if one computer cost 10,000 yuan, how much could three million computers cost?! Moreover, they had accumulated more than a year's worth of customers.
Every year, with all kinds of cooperation, after-sales, and other miscellaneous profits, it was not a problem for them to sell more than a billion yuan a year.
One had to know that in the future, the net profit and net sales of the Lianxiang Group in 2020 were more than 400 billion!
In the later generations, Lianhe was criticized by countless people for having the best after-sales service and the worst hardware facilities.
But to be honest, at that time, the Combined Box Company occupied one-third of the Dragon Country's market!
After all, at that time, there were not many companies that could make computers independently.
There were even fewer companies that could form a complete assembly line.
Take Chen Fan's Red Star Technology Co., Ltd. as an example.
Chen Fan had been reborn for more than twenty years, and he was a super genius full-stack engineer.
Under such circumstances, and with the almost perfect and clear Red Star operating system, he could have the capital to compete with WeSoft in the country within half a year.
If he had to start from scratch and recompile the code of the Red Star operating system bit by bit, it would take a lot of time.
The core code of a computer operating system was at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines.
As for the total code volume, it was needless to say.
How large would the code volume be for a giga-sized program? Not to mention forming a system to complete the operation.
This was different from the game.
The games of the later generations, such as mobile games, such as games like LoL, were usually a few or more than ten GB.
Why was the data size of their games bigger than the operating system?
That was because most of their data resources were used to process images, actions, special effects, and the normal operation of the system. Speaking of which, the development of the game system was much simpler than the development of the operating system.
The operating system had to consider hardware compatibility, program compatibility, diverse office and personal environments, and the combination of hardware and software for network access.
These things were all based on the underlying architecture of the operating system.
Games, on the other hand, were a high-level program based on the operating system architecture.
In the end, a game was also a type of software. It had the foundation of an operating system. As long as the system was compatible, it could be directly debugged and operated.
Of course, this didn't mean that the game was easy to develop.
However, compared to the operating system, the development of the operating system was definitely more difficult.
Therefore, the amount of manpower, time, and various resources required was enormous.
If it wasn't for the support of these foundations, before even a quarter of the system was perfected, the company would have run out of funds and fallen into a financial deficit. The company would either be sold or declared bankrupt.
Therefore, playing with the operating system and hardware facilities was not something that could be realized immediately with just a random idea.
The amount of money spent was an unimaginable number.
It was also because of these reasons that the time and resources wasted were too much.
Under such circumstances, in the entire Dragon Country at that time, there were not many powerful tycoons, or rather, those technological geniuses, or code geniuses who could support such a super money-burning and super profitable industry.
That was why some foreign manufacturers had found an opportunity to invade the domestic market.
The reason why the joint box could be made and sold in a very good situation was to compete with those foreign manufacturers and firmly grasp the domestic market in the hands of the Chinese.
This was similar to Chen Fan's original intention of setting up the Red Star operating system.
However, at this stage, the joint box company was not a particularly large company. It shipped about three to four million units a year, and the hardware facilities were not particularly strong. Chen Fan had a chance to take it.
Once he had his own hardware manufacturer, he would be able to upgrade the hard disk, screen, core chip, CPU motherboards, memory, and a series of material upgrades. He would have some memories of the future and could even reduce the price of hardware facilities on the market.
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