The Goddess Shines on America

"Oscar, are you okay?"

"Not good, not good at all!"

At the breakfast table, facing Alice's warm greetings with a smile all over his face, Oscar held the bag on his head and yelled loudly.

"Oscar is really unlucky. He is fine when he goes down the stairs, he is fine when he makes a turn, and he can even open the toilet door by himself. Why did he fall at the last moment?"

A blond woman walked quickly from the kitchen with steady steps. With a gentle smile, he first put a fried egg into Alice's plate, and then handed two rolls of bacon to Oscar and Hannah respectively.

"And it fell very hard~"

Looking at the big red bump on her younger brother's forehead, Alice's smile never faded from the beginning.

so close!

The moment the little brother Xiongzi opened the door, she wiped away all traces!

But even with his eyes closed, Oscar still broke into the toilet!

In a fit of rage, Alice didn't care that he was her younger brother, so she immediately threw him to the ground with telekinetic power, and then walked out with a big stride. Poor Oscar woke up, but he couldn't find the real culprit at all. He could only cover his head on the dining table with a bored face, thinking he was unlucky.

"Oscar got hurt today, I'll give you a share of my oatmeal!"

Sitting opposite Alice was her younger sister Hannah, who was just ten years old this year. Compared with Alice's Asian mixed race and Oscar's perfect Chinese appearance, Hannah inherited her grandmother's genes, with long dark red wavy hair, and the same blue eyes that gave her a strong British style.

"Look, what a little lady Hannah is."

Alice praised, and then filled Hannah with oatmeal: "Dad, I have good news for you, I have researched the router."

The person sitting at the head of the dining table is naturally Alice's father, James.

"So fast?"

James just took a sip of coffee and said in surprise: "Didn't you say that the development was only started this week? It's only been four or five days now, and it's finished!?"

Sophie also stopped in surprise. Although the whole family knew what Alice was busy with recently, it was a piece of computer hardware, and it was made in a week?

Is this efficiency a bit too fast?

Alice smiled smugly, seeing a piece of oatmeal falling on the napkin, she stretched out her hand and flicked it back to the dining table: "It's just a router, not the whole MS-DOS operating system, it's been a week That's enough. Dad, if you're interested, I can demonstrate it to you tonight~"

"Tch, is there anyone urging you, what are you in such a hurry for?"

Oscar covered the swelling on his forehead, and curled his lips at Alice: "Could it be that you have been staying up late these few nights? It's also because you didn't doze off in class during the day, so what's the big deal if it took a month to complete it?" ?”

Sophie had just finished sharing meals for the family, and while she was seated, she frowned at Oscar and said, "What are you talking about, Weiwei works so hard, isn't it for the good of our family? Come, Weiwei, have another piece of bacon."

At the same time that Alice took Bacon, James stroked his chin and said softly: "It is right to be anxious, I am also watching "Popular Electronics", the development speed of the computer industry can be said to be changing with each passing day, and the competition is very fierce. In this way, Weiwei, please ask the school for leave tomorrow, and I will take you to apply for the patent of this router."

Alice swallowed the whole piece of bacon in one gulp: "It's really intense. As for this router, someone at Stanford University must be researching it. They are also the cradle of the entire Silicon Valley, but the progress is hard to say. But when it comes to patents, Dad , you can rest assured."

After eating the eggs in two or three bites, Alice went on to say: "If you look carefully, you will find that although people in the computer industry are very motivated, they don't know enough about patents in this industry. Um... But Soon, after all, PCs have been on the market the year before last, judging by the current speed of popularization... Well, that's fine, then apply for a patent."

Alice is really not too worried about the patent issue of the router. After all, the history is clear that this thing was first created by Cisco, and this company will only be registered at the end of this year.

It's 1984, and of course the computer world already has a network, but before Cisco's router, it was an expensive, separate computer that played the role of a network specialist. Furthermore, different types of networks cannot be easily interconnected, which led the Stanford teacher couple to make up their minds to make a cheap little guy that can connect to different networks.

Although the Bosacks may have had a similar product a few months before the company was registered at the end of the year, but in terms of efficacy, it is definitely not as good as Alice.

Not long after breakfast, it was time for school. The ginger school bus had already appeared on the street. Alice put on her schoolbag and walked out of the house holding Hannah's hand.

When she took the first step to board the school bus, a beautiful woman automatically came into view.

With brilliant blond hair like Sophie, the driver Lawrence smiled at the two girls: "Welcome to the car, Alice, Hannah, oh, where is Oscar? He asked for leave today?"

Alice laughed: "He bought a bicycle last Friday and rode it away this morning."

Hannah didn't say a word, rolled her eyes, and tugged at Alice's sleeves. Of course, Lawrence didn't suspect him, and said with a happy smile, "It's true for Oscar, he rode away by himself. Come on, you two, get in the car."

The school bus of St. Antoine Elementary School was driving all the way, picking up students from various households. More than 30 children were talking and laughing in low voices all the time, but when Alice walked into the car, the voice inside the car suddenly Another level down.

"Hey Alice, good morning."

"Hey, Hannah is so energetic today, Alice, where is your brother?"

"Oh, welcome to the car, the two sisters of the Wang family~!"

Along the way, in the suddenly much quieter carriage, about three or five classmates immediately greeted them, while the others looked at them with different expressions and continued their small talk.

"Well, good morning everyone."

Alice responded with a half-smile, almost no different from talking to herself, and quickly pulled Hannah towards the rear of the car.

In the almost full-stacked carriage, only two seats were left vacant in the last row of seats, and another black-haired girl was sitting in the corner by the window, carefully reading a newspaper.

"Hey Sissy, are you watching Popular Electronics again?"

Alice sat down next to the black-haired girl with ease, let Hannah sit on her right side, and patted the girl on the shoulder intimately: "Is there any news?"

From the girl named Sissy, a faint fragrance of orchids wafted. Although she also has black hair, but unlike Alice's natural long hair, her hairstyle is the standard Japanese Hime hairstyle. That is, the long pure black hair was permed straight, hanging all the way to the waist, and there was also a straight bang on the forehead.

Alice also met this girl last year, who was a transfer student who immigrated from France. Undoubtedly, it was the quarter of the same blood brought by her mother that made her not hesitate to regard Sissy as a necessary object of communication, and they also successfully became friends.

What surprised Alice a little was that Sissy was not as interested in cosmetics as many French girls were, but had a natural sensitivity to the computer field, which was quite unexpected.

The school bus was rolling, and Hannah started chatting with the students around her. Sissy put down the newspaper and clicked her tongue: "Now the major media are overwhelmingly promoting Microsoft's new system, and some people here are guessing when Gates will release the new system." Products. Hey Alice, what do you think?"

Alice touched her nose, but didn't say anything immediately.

In 1984, today is indeed an eventful time.

As far as Microsoft is concerned, they have been promoting their new product, the windows 1.0 operating system, at computer fairs in Las Vegas since the end of last year. Alice knew that Bill Gates spent a total of 450,000 U.S. dollars on publicity at that time. Not only did the taxis in the city wear relevant LOGOs, posters were pasted on the back seat windows, even hotel pillowcases were printed on it. Related patterns!

At this time, how many assets did Microsoft have in total?

Furthermore, when the exhibition officially started, Gates made a high-profile announcement that the company would launch Windows 1.0 in the spring of 1984, the so-called unprecedented Windows operating system. With the previous publicity campaign, the public's curiosity has already been overwhelmed. How can the media not report Microsoft's news all day long?

The reason why Bill Gates did this is precisely because of a little-known Visicorp company, because the other party is likely to develop a similar system before him, and it has already started to promote it. Of course, this is not what he is willing to accept.

The process was very interesting and even intense, but if it is said that the result of this business competition, Alice is of course 10,000 rest assured, history proves everything.

"Vivi? Hey, let me ask you a question."

Sissy's high-pitched voice recalled Alice's thoughts: "Now that spring is almost over, there is no news from them. I think Microsoft is going to delay the ticket. Weiwei, do you think they can release the system in June? ?”

Alice curled her lips: "June? It's not bad if it comes out at the end of next year."

Sissy's eyes widened: "Are you kidding me? The ticket has been skipped for a year and a half!?"

Alice curled her lips again: "Do you think I will tell you that Gates has not made the system at all?"

As soon as these words came out, Sissy's eyes widened even more. Looking carefully, her eyes were as crystal clear as emeralds, exuding emerald green light: "You mean, Gates is making false propaganda now? He won't put , then what if he can’t do it!?”

Alice shrugged and said: "Then continue to skip tickets, and then the industry doubts, and the stock price falls... Well, Microsoft is not listed yet, that is, if he can't make the product in the shortest time, the reputation of the company will be greatly reduced. If the speed continues to decline, the main business will be affected."

Sissy nodded, stared at the newspaper with a frown, and muttered in her mouth, her voice was extremely small, but she didn't know what she was talking about.

Hannah tugged at Alice's sleeve, her voice soft and soft: "Vivi, why don't you help Gates to make the system, with your help, it will definitely be done in a month! Otherwise, Sissy will definitely be furious~"

"That's right, if I get angry, I won't be able to spare that Gates!"

Sissy nodded vigorously and said, "I'm definitely going to buy a Gatling machine gun and blow his headquarters building in Albuquerque into pieces to make him dare to bounce tickets! No, false propaganda!"

"Then you have to seize the opportunity, dear Sissy."

Alice smiled and looked out the window. Many middle and high school students were riding bicycles towards the school, and many of them even had the heart to wave to the school bus. However, she clearly noticed that she did not see Oscar.

"Most of Microsoft's employees are from Seattle. I bet you that in three or two years, Gates will move his headquarters back instead of staying in New Mexico."

Sissy nodded again, and then, as if she suddenly remembered something, she said loudly: "By the way, Weiwei, speaking of false propaganda, how do you know that he hasn't made the system yet? You are not an internal employee of Microsoft. , what nonsense are you talking about!?”

"Uh, did you just find out?"

"...Are you kidding me for being an idiot?"

"No way, dear Sissi, your IQ is as high as 250!"

"...Why do I still think you are scolding me?"

"No, where is it? Isn't an IQ of 250 high?"

Seeing the innocent smile on Alice's face, Sissy twisted her lips hard, and finally decided that it would be better to have the same knowledge as this girl.