After the launch events for the D and G series rice, the first batch of 200,000 units has been released to the market.
Of the global allocation, approximately 80,000 units were sold in mainland China. This included a small number of G-series units.
The quantity is too small to meet demand. Although individuals buy very little, the demand at the unit level is enormous.
Several domestic computer manufacturers obtained a few DaMi series computers through connections.
I think of Great Wall, Panda, Dalang, and several computer research institutes.
Especially someone who, upon receiving the D-series rice, immediately disassembled it to pieces. The CPU, removed from the motherboard, was taken for testing. When the experts saw the CPU test data, they scoffed and were very dismissive.
According to what they were saying in their conversation, this CPU is about the same performance as a CPU from ten years ago, so what can it do?
They're going public with this? Isn't this just pure deception?
So someone thought of setting up a research and development team to compete with the price-cutting rice D series.
You're selling it for 5999? I'm selling it for 5900!
Besides the main hardware components, they made a careful selection after choosing the CPU, opting for the cheapest Z80 motherboard.
To be honest, Xing Baohua even used the Z80 as the CPU for his learning machine. For someone like [Company Name] to use it as the main unit is simply outrageous.
The Z80 is a product from the 1970s. Although it is an upgrade of the 8080, it still costs eight figures.
Electronic products are constantly being updated and replaced, moving forward. What this company is doing is indeed turning back the clock.
What operating system is suitable for the Z80? It can't find a compatible system, so we'll have to go back to the systems from the 1970s.
That's it? Is there even any possibility of competition?
Xing Baohua may have been deceiving people, but he wouldn't treat them like fools. Although the CPU wasn't powerful, it was indeed a 32-bit system.
Combined with their continuously optimized Mount Everest system, this smoothness is second only to the 386 and three generations faster than the Z80.
Actually, there's nothing I can do about it.
The main problem is that their leader is frequently criticized by his superiors. They always bring up rice as a topic of conversation and make comparisons.
They would talk to the adults in their family about their children, saying things like, "Look how well so-and-so studies and how obedient they are."
It would make anyone feel uncomfortable, or even resentful.
This time, there's no need for instructions from above; let's immediately launch a competition.
Other computer manufacturers, after carefully studying the D series, quickly discovered that in addition to the differences in hardware, there were also differences in the operating system.
This isn't a system with a UINX core architecture at all; it's just a UINX shell. Why not announce such a big deal as changing to a Chinese version of the system?
I kept testing the system with the software, and the more I used it, the more comfortable I felt with it.
The software has been reformatted and many functions have been simplified. Although the current functions are usable, it's still not as user-friendly as the Windows version.
Panda Electronics also provided an in-depth user report on the D-series computers.
They exaggerate the Everest system to an extreme degree, claiming it's the best system in China, using ingenious methods to control capacity, saving space on tiny hard drives so that more software can be installed.
This is a bold idea. Looking at all computer systems in the world, while they have grown ever larger during development, only the Mount Everest of rice has been constantly shrinking.
The company that keeps expanding its size is Microsoft. The internal hard drive is not enough, so users have to use external floppy disks or CDs to increase the computer's capacity.
Panda was also the first organization to apply for the use of the Mount Everest system.
It's not that they won't give us rice, but that Panda doesn't have Loongson 1 chips.
The Everest CPU can only be used with a Loongson processor; if other brands of CPUs are used, it cannot even be installed.
Actually, during the experimental phase, the Everest system could be used on the 386, which was to test the maturity of various optimized Everest systems such as the Loongson 1. Xiaotian then locked out the use of other CPUs.
It's not impossible to use it, but you need to update the firmware in the BIOS on the motherboard, and you also need to short-circuit on the motherboard and connect the engineering cable before you can flash the system.
Remember, this is not installing the system, it's flashing the system.
The difference between these two names is not significant, but the procedures are different.
Different names have different units. Vehicles on land are called "liang" (辆), and ships at sea are called "sou" (艘).
Pointing at a boat and calling it that boat sounds awkward.
Panda and DaMi were approached but politely declined. Panda has too few Loongson chips; they don't even have enough for their own needs, so they can't allocate a batch to them. Without Loongson chips, they can't produce low-end, inexpensive machines.
Then it would be better not to give it at all. But the rice company also offered a high-end configuration, while Panda only wanted the low-end. The rice G series is even more expensive than IBM's, how many people in China actually buy it?
Of all the computer manufacturers in the country, only Panda had contacted us. The remaining manufacturers were either researching or copying.
After conducting their research, Dalang Group began reverse engineering, preparing to replicate the exact same low-end product.
Although they were very close to the rice factory and thought they could get a batch of Loongson chips because of their connections, they didn't get any when they went there, and it was all in vain to use their connections.
They also realized that without Loongson processors, they couldn't run low-end computers smoothly. Doesn't Xiaomi have high-end computers? They'll just copy the G series.
DaLang can indeed replicate the motherboard of the DaMi G series, but he just can't install the Mount Everest system.
They didn't even know where the problem lay.
They were furious that the rice was being kept secret. They reported to their superiors, saying that this secrecy was detrimental to the development of the domestic computer industry. They demanded that the rice company release its source code to all computer manufacturers.
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