Nostalgic Wind festival Ten software that has gone

"Year in, Zhongguancun, software industry a few return rounds, the present big guy laughs, do not know how many graves." "From the 90 's onwards, the computer industry has developed rapidly, software replacement is swift and violent." New requirements promote new software, and old products are thrown into the dark corner of time, no longer be mentioned. On this qingming, I would like to review 10 of the software has gone, to pay tribute to those who have brought us good memories of the people and things bar!

Chinese platform under DOS system: UCDOS

Ucdos is Beijing hopes the company developed the Chinese character system, it is running in the MSDOS system environment of Chinese platform, you can make the characters in DOS display and input in the text, but it is still an application software, can not be separated from DOS independent operation. And the early WPS, FOXBACSE are based on this application.

UCDOS

Compared with the same time software, the Ucdos system is flexible and easy to handle, can not restart the operating system, the use of the command to Ucdos Chinese character system from memory, without disrupting MS-DOS or PCDOs operating system.

In addition, the display and print fonts are installed flexibly and efficiently. According to the system resources and work needs, the font can be placed in different storage areas, so as to achieve savings in main memory space, the full use of machine resources.

Ucdos also supports 25 lines of colored Chinese characters, and can support the same character color attributes as the West character, making the software running under the Ucdos character system more vivid, stable and clear screen effects.

UCDOS

In the DOS era, the program master proficient in the assembly, Chinese platform must use assembly language as the main development language to achieve its refining, efficient goals, and assembly language is the main feature of the development of investment, difficult to debug. At that time, the Ucdos development team often overnight, only to make such a fine software.

But with the rapid development of computer technology, DOS time program experts relish the memory resident, interrupt interception and other skills have no place, Windows has completely replaced the Dos,ucdos also stopped the development. This classic software has ended.

Ucdos Developer: Bao

Bao

Bao, born April 4, 1967. 89 graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou University, May 1993 into the hope of computer companies, began to engage in the development of UCDOS work, the same year issued UCDOS 3.0, 1994 to 1997 has presided over the development of UCDOS 3.1-ucdos 7.0 and Ucwin Gold 1.0. In early 1998, leaving Beijing computer company, and Jianjing and other people to form a Beijing joint public Computer Technology Co., Ltd., is the president of the Beijing joint public.

Once the most cow Input method: Intelligent ABC

"Intelligent ABC Chinese Character input Method" is a well-known Chinese character input method in China. Since Microsoft in Win32 as the basic Chinese character input method, intelligent ABC has successively authorized IBM, COMPAQ, HP, Apple, Red Flag Linux, Medium soft Linux and other companies to use. The intelligent ABC Input method was invented by Mr. Zhu Shoutao of Peking University. Developed in the Department of Science and Technology Development, Beijing University, used to be China's largest number of users of the input method software.

Intelligent ABC

Intelligent ABC is not a pure pinyin input method, but a combination of sound and form input method. So on the basis of the input pinyin, if you add the first shape of the word pen code, you can quickly retrieve the word.

For example: Long-3164, Stone-138, 3-82, City-71135, 锟-311816, Lian-433165, Magic-41338, snow-1455. Pure pen Input or user input does not know the word of a good helper, instead of you look up the dictionary. If enter three dragon this word "Uighurs", just enter 414414, can hit this word, still can know the pronunciation of this word.

Intelligent ABC Support Pen input

In addition, intelligent ABC also has mandatory memory that can be used to define longer or more commonly used phrases. With this feature, you can add new words directly to the user library. Intelligent ABC has enough controllability to show that the longer you use it, the less the chance of error, and the less chance of error.

But the disadvantage of intelligent ABC is also obvious, compared with other input methods, intelligent ABC can not be with the input of phonetic symbols immediately display words, and need to click the space bar first, to show the selection of words menu, not intuitive; and in the input long sentences, each word in the sentence to be confirmed by the space, more cumbersome.

Input method of the year

Especially after the Sogou, the drawbacks of the intelligent ABC more prominent. Intelligent ABC dozen commonly used words have to find half a day, but Sogou can be directly displayed in the first, and Sogou has a cloud thesaurus can be updated at any time resources and functions, very convenient for users to choose.

But in the previous use, many users did not really master the intelligent ABC Input method, but only as a copy of the Pinyin input method to use. But from another point of view, this also shows that the use of intelligent ABC is relatively poor, only suitable for enthusiasts, ordinary users do not have much interest to delve into an input method.

Intelligent ABC Input Method inventor: Zhu Shoutao

Zhu Shoutao, Male, July 1946 born, East Generation village of Ningyang County town, Shandong Province, professor of Peking University, inventor of intelligent ABC Input method. In the 70 's, he participated in the first large-scale computer development project in China, completed the first intelligent Chinese character input system "CW Chinese word Processing system", which conforms to the national language Specification in 1987, which provides the theory and model for intelligent Pinyin input technology. In the 1990, Zhu Shoutao designed the "intelligent ABC" Chinese character input method on the basis of CW, so that the pinyin and the font description are combined freely and become the input technology which is especially easy to learn and use.

RM Format Player: RealPlayer

In 1995, a Microsoft executive, Robert Grace, left Microsoft and founded the RealNetworks company. It has developed a universal audio and video player for the Internet service, on the other hand, for media companies, such as NBC, to deliver programs to the Internet. The company's players are cross-platform, able to support all existing audio and video compression formats, and do so while downloading, while playing.

RealPlayer

RealNetworks was successful early on, launching its RealPlayer 1.0 player and broadcasting the NBA basketball game on the Internet. Over the next two years, RealNetworks will launch a number of new products and services every six months. However, by the end of the 90, as Microsoft's position in the player market strengthened, the development of RealPlayer was increasingly constrained.

Unlike RealPlayer, Microsoft's Media Player, Windows Media Player, is provided free of charge with the Windows operating system. With a free player, very few people will spend 40 of dollars downloading a feature-like RealPlayer? Microsoft Media Player has surpassed RealPlayer to win the market share first.

RealPlayer

Of course, due to patent restrictions, RM and RMVB format of the media can not use Microsoft's MediaPlayer playback, must use the RealPlayer paid version, but, if which media companies choose this format, the audience and the number of listeners is necessarily small and small, over time, This type of media format that cannot be generalized will naturally tend to be eliminated.

By 2000, Windows Media player had captured half of RealPlayer's market share. By the year 2002, two companies would have been in the same place. In 2004, RealPlayer's share was less than half that of Microsoft's MediaPlayer. Since then, it is less than 10% of the player market.

At home, the 2003 launch of the Storm audio and video swept the parties, including RealPlayer.

Summarize:

Using free bundled MediaPlayer, Microsoft controls the player on the vast majority of users ' computers and gradually controls the format of media files on the Internet. And let RealPlayer out of the ranks of first-class companies. However, in the history of the Internet, RealNetworks's contribution is indelible, it makes MP3 music spread widely on the internet.