Chapter 138: What is the Boss's Background

"Cough, hello boss, my name is Albert Pearson, my work is graphics interaction interface design, this part of the work has low technical difficulty, but the design difficulty is not small, there are many designs we still need to consider the support degree of equipment hardware…"

"Wait, give an example." Murphy said.

Albert was stunned for a moment, "Okay, for example, the most important structure of the graphics interface is various frame bodies. When users drag the frame body or zoom in or out, we want to design smoother animations, but smooth means high refresh rate, and too high refresh rate will have relatively high requirements for computer hardware, so we have been swaying between 30 frames and 60 frames of animation…"

"Do 60 frames." Murphy said, "These types of problems are all handled according to the best effect. You don't have to worry too much about computer hardware. We have developed a special graphics processing chip used to process graphics and image information, so just use the design you think will make people most comfortable."

"Are there any other problems?"

"No, none." Albert seemed shocked by Murphy's unhesitating attitude.

"Good, next one, Functional Architecture Group, Mr. Angerson?"

"Boss, hello. Our work is mainly to design more easy-to-use functions for the desktop system, such as Notepad, Paint tools, etc. … Currently, the problem we encounter is that these tools are too many and too subtle. If they are all placed on the desktop, it will look very messy, but if they are placed in secondary interfaces such as settings, functions, etc., it is very easy to be ignored…"

Murphy thought for a while and understood. At this moment, the Windows system was not yet in its future appearance, so they probably hadn't seen that revolutionary design that appeared on Win95.

"Make a Start Menu."

Murphy said.

"It is the most conspicuous and commonly used button on the desktop, placed in the lower left corner of the screen. Put all basic functions, such as shutdown, standby, etc., in the popped-up first-level interface, and then place the small functions you mentioned in the second-level interface. All functions in the computer should be found in the Start Menu."

"The icon can use the style of the Umbrella logo. It will be the button that users have the most memory points for."

"Next. Network Protocol Group, Asim McPherson."

"Boss, what we encountered is a technical problem." Asim didn't even introduce his work this time. He had already seen that this boss was here to make decisions, not to listen to everyone bragging about their performance. Since that was the case, he went straight to the point.

"In short, we intend to use the TCP/IP protocol to communicate with other hosts on the network, but in the case of temporary hosts applying for IPs and going offline, because it will occupy this IP address, it may lead to no addresses available for new users in the network…"

Murphy frowned, then understood, "Is the IP allocation protocol BOOTP?"

"Yes."

At this time, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) had not yet appeared. The addresses allocated to hosts in the network through the BOOTP protocol were all permanent addresses, so the situation of occupying IPs after temporary users went offline would occur.

"Just change the IP allocation rule to leasing. Any automatically allocated address is a temporary address, and when acquiring an address, it is dynamically extended from the remaining address pool."

"The BOOTP protocol is not suitable for wide area networks, update it with my idea."

"Okay, next…"

…

The meeting lasted for a whole day. After the meeting, almost everyone had a look of confusion and disbelief on their faces.

"What is the background of our boss?"

Not to mention understanding users, management, and design, he actually understood technology, from system architecture to hypertext protocols, there was almost nothing he didn't understand, and not only did he understand, but he was also very proficient.

Those difficulties that had plagued them for a long time, the boss often only needed a short thought to grasp the core difficulties, and then give a feasible solution, or even directly provide a solution.

What kind of god-like giant is this!

"Boss, I said before that this system is designed for future equipment, I was too ignorant. It turns out that you actually had solutions to most of the difficulties long ago."

Bob Henderson looked at Murphy with half shame and half worship, "If you presided over the development yourself, perhaps, the system would have been completed by now."

Relying on a super brain, Murphy at this time didn't need "Comprehensive Recall" to sort out his memory. Those advanced concepts from the future, plus the various basic knowledge he had recently crammed, under the promotion of super brain power, formed a dimensionality reduction strike on the problems faced by these senior engineers at this moment.

"I am indeed good at some things, and I might be good at more in the future," Murphy smiled, "But, I can't finish all the work by myself."

Murphy said, patting Bob on the shoulder. The other party was about the same height as him before, but now he had grown two centimeters, and he felt that this action was relatively natural.

"Without your preliminary exploration, I wouldn't be able to guess the problems that might be encountered out of thin air and solve them. Don't be self-deprecating, work hard, I hope to see the finished product before the end of the year."

…

In November, Pict's second animated movie "The Lamp's Adventure" was released. A Disney producer looking at the original project plan for "Aladdin" that was ready to be submitted for approval by senior management was struck by lightning, and for a time began to doubt the reality of the world.

I was clearly the one who came first!

That month, Murphy took a thick stack of script originals and threw them to Pict's senior management, "There are ten scripts here, I have already arranged the production order. In the next three years, these projects will be your main work. I won't participate too much in the specific production process, but I hope everyone won't waste these excellent stories."

Everything that can be made in the top 50 box office in film history is now handed to you. If you still can't make it…

Hmm… if you can't even eat the food fed to your mouth, then what use are you? Why not kick you all out?

…

In early December, the developing solution mixed with photoresist technology was successfully developed, not only solving the last bottleneck of chip mass production, but also advancing the process technology to 0.2 microns.

And the IC design department also accelerated the completion of various chip designs with Murphy's help. After the chip tape-out was successful in mid-month, several chip factories under Umbrella quickly cleared their schedules and began to produce self-developed chips with full force.

At the same time, the desktop system was also developed and officially entered the polishing and optimization stage.

Before Christmas, a prototype was brought to Murphy and Patrick.

Silver-white matte metal body, black flat keyboard, equipped with a 21-inch LCD monitor, as if it were in the same line as the Apple model that was leading the global electronics industry design trend at this moment, but iterated ten years more. It gave people a feeling that was both approachable, warm, and comfortable, and full of technological sense, as if it came from the future.

Patrick pressed the circular power button, and the blue LED ambient light behind it lit up immediately. The 300M SSD solid-state hard drive ensured that the machine entered the operating interface within two seconds.

Looking at the concise yet seemingly containing all functional elements interface displayed on the pure flat LCD screen that was only three fingers thick, Patrick was trembling with excitement.

He opened several programs and operated for a while. After a long time, he excitedly grabbed Murphy, "Tell me this is not a dream! Is this really made by us? Such a machine… such a computer exceeded all my imagination of personal computers!!"

"This is simply… this is simply something in science fiction works, it's magic! I actually saw it in reality!"

"Unbelievable! Hard to imagine! I can already see this world boiling for it!"

He was as excited as when he first saw Essence of Dittany. He had discovered that great product that could change the world again.

"Do you like it?" Murphy asked with a smile, "If you like it, let's have a press conference, you bring it to the world yourself."

Patrick was stunned, and then a wave of emotion surged in his chest, "You kid…"

Murphy knew his idol was Jobs, and this was helping him fulfill his dream.

"This is a moment that will be remembered by history, are you sure you don't want to do it yourself?"

"The thing I wanted to do has been completed."

"Creating a product that changes the world is my task, but bringing it to users all over the world is your mission."

"The position under the spotlight is not suitable for me, this is the glory that belongs to you, my friend."

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 139 =====