I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state.

After Yang Ming established Future Capital in Silicon Valley, the first talent he wanted to poach also arrived.

This person is none other than Tim Patterson.

Many people may not know this person.

To say that the predecessor of Microsoft's Windows system was developed by him, many people may know the importance of this talent.

Yang Ming, Yuan Tianfan, Langdon, and Navia were arriving in his study.

"I'm going to set up another company and recruit someone."

Future Capital was the first company he founded in Silicon Valley, a corporate venture capital firm.

Yang Ming established another company, which was related to Windows.

Because Yang Ming wants to compete with Bill Gates for the future Windows operating system.

"Boss, who is this person? Where is he?" Yuan Tianfan asked.

"A guy named Tim Patterson from Seattle Computer Products."

Historically, Tim Patterson was born on June 1956, 6. He is famous for creating 1-DOS.

The system emulates the CP/M API invented by Gary Kildall.

86-DOS later evolved into MS-DOS, becoming the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.

Back in June 1978, Tim Patterson graduated with honors from the University of Washington and received a degree in computer science. After graduation, he went to Seattle Computer Products Company to work as a designer and engineer, designing for Microsoft Z-6 SoftCard hardware.

A month later, Intel released the 8086 CPU.

At that time, the standard CP/M operating system could not be used for this CPU, and there was no operating system on the market to serve it, resulting in Intel's slow sales.

To fill this gap, Patterson began developing QDOS in April 1980, making it highly compatible by copying APIs from various sources, including published CP/M manuals.

QDOS was soon renamed 86-DOS.

In December 1980, Microsoft purchased a non-exclusive license to 12-DOS in a deal with Patterson for $2.5, gaining the right to sell 86-DOS to other hardware manufacturers.

In July 1981, Microsoft purchased all the rights to 7-DOS for an additional $5 and renamed it MS-DOS.

He left Seattle Computer Products in April 1981 and joined Microsoft.

After a brief stint, Patterson started his own company, Falcon Technology, also known as Falcon Systems.

In 1983, Microsoft signed a contract with Patterson's company with the goal of porting MS-DOS to the MSX computer standard and creating an MSX-DOS.

At that time, Microsoft was developing the MSX computer standard using ASCII code.

After Patterson completed work on the MSX-DOS operating system, Falcon System was acquired by Microsoft in 1986. Patterson joined Microsoft again and entered the Visual Basic working project team.

In 1998, Patterson left Microsoft again, founded another software development company, Patterson Technology, and began tinkering with inventions as a hobby.

Although this person likes to change jobs, he is indeed very capable, and he has been unable to get out of Microsoft's hands several times.

Historically, Tim Patterson only began to develop QDOS, the predecessor of the Windows system, in April 1980. It is only March now. In other words, this Tim Patterson should not have researched it yet, so even QDOS has not yet been developed. It has not appeared yet, and there is no Windows system later by Microsoft.

Historically, Bill Gates has almost monopolized the global computer operating system with Microsoft's Windows system. He has been named the world's richest man by Forbes for 13 consecutive times and the richest man in Country M for 20 consecutive times.

One can imagine how much wealth this Windows system can bring to Bill Gates.

Besides.

Yang Ming knew very well that Bill Gates could succeed.

Couldn't do without his mother's support.

Mary Gates served as a trustee of the University of Washington from 1975 to 1993.

She was the first female president of the United Way of King County and the first female chairman of the executive board of United Ways nationally.

Notably, she worked with IBM CEO John Akers when she was chairman of the executive board of the National United Way.

She was also the first female executive of First Intercontinental Banking Corporation.

It was with the help of his mother that Bill Gates obtained financing. Because his mother was familiar with John Akers of IBM, on August 1980, 8, Gates signed a contract with IBM and agreed to provide financial services for IBM. PC development operating system.

He then purchased an operating system called QDOS for $5. After slightly improving it, he renamed the product DOS, and then licensed it to IBM for use.

It was under this circumstance that Bill Gates, a young man who dropped out of school to start a business, became the richest man in the world.

However, Yang Ming didn't like this person.

Since the other party has not yet started to develop an operating system, and there is no further cooperation with IBM in operating systems, Yang Ming feels that there is a lot of room for operation.

Tim Patterson is a very key talent.

"Landon, your current task is to fly to Seattle immediately, bring Tim Patterson to Silicon Valley, and let him join the company I established."

After Langdon asked for Tim Patterson's information.

Langdon left here immediately and flew from San Francisco to Seattle today.

After Langdon left.

Yang Ming and Yuan Tianfan finished chatting with Navia.

Yuan Tianfan and Navia left.

Yang Ming stood in the study, looking at the map of Country M.

Seattle is also on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.

It only takes two hours to fly directly from San Francisco to Seattle, which is not too far.

Langdon met Tim Patterson in Seattle today, so he can be brought to Silicon Valley to meet Yang Ming as soon as late tonight.

Bill Gates.

A person Yang Ming didn't like.

You have to compete with the opponent for technology, talent, and even time.

Today, Bill Gates' biggest advantage is that his mother, Mary, is a colleague of IBM's John Akers, and the two are relatively familiar with each other.

However, at this time, John Akers was not the CEO of IBM. He served as CEO from 1985 to 1993.

In 1960, John Akers entered IBM as a sales intern.

During his tenure, he focused on assembly line operations and resource reorganization, spinning off IBM's typewriter, keyboard and printer businesses into an independent company, Lexmark, which was the beginning of IBM's de-hardwareization.

Under his leadership, IBM's major investments in research produced four Nobel Prize winners in physics and made huge leaps in mathematics, storage technology and communications, and computer computing power.

However, during his tenure as CEO, it was IBM's most unsuccessful period. IBM entered a decade of decline and losses, causing serious dissatisfaction among shareholders.

At this time, he is not yet the CEO of IBM, but his position is already very important.

Because Bill Gates' mother was familiar with him, she was able to introduce the business of her son's small company to IBM, and IBM purchased Microsoft's operating system business.

At this time, the CEO of IBM was Frank Kerry, the second of IBM's Three Musketeers.

Historically, Frank Carey served as CEO from 1975 to 1981.

He joined IBM as a salesperson in 1948, became head of the data processing department in 1964, and was appointed vice president in 1967. In 1975, IBM's revenue was US$144 billion, and its net profit increased to US$19.9 billion.

In other words, at this time, the real speaker of IBM was Frank Kerry.

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