Joe moved from IBM on the East Coast to Cardiff, Texas, where Gordon works. Previously inspired by Gordon's technical articles on Open Architecture and Symphony, he decided to leave IBM and come to Texas to find opportunities to build cutting-edge PCs - one reason for joining Cardiff, another because Cardiff has certain manufacturing facilities capacity, a certain customer base, and the company is not very large - there is the possibility of accepting change.
Joe planned a business plan to realize his dream: he persuaded Gordon to reverse engineer the ROM BIOS of IBM computers with him, and reverse-engineered the assembly code; then, he volunteered to disclose his reverse engineering to IBM, and IBM's strong legal team immediately Pressing Cardiff, Joe thus pushed boss Bosworth into the PC business, where by law they needed to prove they were legally developing a PC, as long as their engineers could complete the BIOS in a few weeks, independent of Gordon and IBM's assembly code code written to avoid IBM's indictment.
So Joe found Cameron, a female CS major with personality, and persuaded her to write BIOS; Cameron's unrestrained work style made Joe and Gordon anxious, so Joe took IBM's assembly code book to Cameron under pressure, hoping she Plagiarism, but to make changes to cover up the traces of plagiarism. In fact, Cameron is showing her genius side. Gordon later found out that Carmeron had written very nice assembly code.
Then, IBM began to attack Cardiff from a market perspective, poaching Cardiff employees with several times of salary, and robbing most of the customers, and the top management of Cardiff, including Joe and Gordon, were in trouble - this is Joe's failure to As expected, so
they condemned each other.
Joe began to think about what kind of product is the next generation of PC, in the audio shop on the verge of bankruptcy, after seeing the suitcase of IBM's former boss, he suddenly got the idea - portable, he wants to build a PC with a handle.
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Joe is a very passionate person. For the dream he pursued, he did not hesitate to design a game and pit the entire company into the game. ; But this is not just individualism, he wants to lead the direction of the next generation of computers.
Gordon is a computer genius, but he is stuck in life, oscillating between dream and reality.
Here are a few unsolved mysteries:
1. Gordon and Donna's Symphony story
2. What did Joe do at IBM that cost IBM's data center 200w US knife
3. Joe's story between his father and him, Swing the fences, my son, baseball bat
4. Joe's childhood trauma, scars on his body
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