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试用AW97的感触
下载了AW97许久，今天终于试一下，解压和安装相当顺利，但在WIN98的窗口下部分花屏，于是转到DOS下试用，不花屏了。性能倒没详细试过，不过97年才出的汉字系统，性能不至于差到那里。
AW97确实完整地支持GBK汉字，大家可以用EDIT或其他编辑器打开WINDOWS安装文件夹中的GBK.TXT就可检验，在AW97中，全部汉字都可以看到，而在其他汉字系统中，里面的GBK汉字就变成乱码。
可是，当我运行了一下它的输入法，然后再查看一遍文档，刚才的欣喜便消失得无影无踪。
AW97是目前唯一所知支持GBK汉字（中国、日本、韩国统一代码）的大字符集汉字系统，而在它推出的97年，那时仍然有相当多的386/486乃到低档的586仍在使用，解决了大字符集问题的AW97应该还有相当部分市场才对，何以至今寂寂无名。如果不是有网友在论坛上贴出来，使用DOS一直持续到98年的我根本不知道有这种汉字系统的存在。
当我运行了它的输入模块后，马上就明白它不受欢迎的原因了——没有五笔，并且找遍所有文档找不到任何有关输入法接口的介绍。
众所周知，中国先后产生过成千上万种汉字输入法，就举其中著名的几例：五笔字型是王永民发明的，表形码是陈爱文发明的，自然码是周志农发明的，因为他们也都出过汉字系统。王永民创办王码公司，推出的是王码系列汉字系统，陈爱文出的有AW系列汉字系统，周志农加盟超想推出的超想汉字系统。但你知道么，这三个汉字系统也都有共同的特点①都带有自家的输入法②都不带另两家的输入法③都没公开输入法接口的说明文档。
当然，王码汉字系统出道早，五笔字型又是大行其道的，它不带其他的输入法不算过分。只是它后来没注意跟上形势发展，很快就在33M以上的硬盘止步。至于另两种汉字系统不支持五笔就有些微妙了（超想可以“借”用金山汉字系统那并不出息的五笔输入法）。自己把众多的可能用户拦在门外恐怕就是它们衰败的原因之一了（至少我用过超想，它的性能是不错的，直到我用上UCDOS3.1）。相反，我们看最兴旺的UCDOS，不仅自带10多种常见的输入法，而且自3.1版以后任由用户添加甚至修改输入法的。还有不少体贴用户的功能。
作为97年才出来的AW97，完全没有接受以往的教训，失败看来是早就注定的了，大家看看这里（http://www.netcity.net.cn/newspaper/newsdaily/dzwz32/z1.htm），AW96曾被微软选中，有机会加盟PWIN95阵营的，至于为什么不成功，估计也与AW本身的封闭性有关。
一个软件的成败兴衰，其实关键不在技术，更不在宣传，最重要的是用户。微软就是最好的证明，微软的东西从来就不是最好的，但微软一直最注意用户的反应，因而其产品最受用户欢迎的。中国的软件公司和开发人员最缺的也正是这一思想，因此中国出的软件许多并不乏技术和创意，却总是失败在市场上。
AW97可说是这方面的典型，明知当时五笔输入已经占据半壁江山，从事计算机行业的人员使用五笔比例更是高，但就是要拼命守住自己的一亩三分田，拒绝他人插足。我们完全可以想象得到，那些单位的电脑主管们兴冲冲地把这套“DOS下唯一的GBK汉字系统”买回去装上后，第一反应便会是跳脚骂娘。这样的软件可以成功吗？休想。
几千年前，我们大圣人孔子一朝掌权，马上就找个籍口杀掉了一直开学校同它竞争的少正卯，余毒至今深入民族骨髓千年不散，不知又要再遗害多久了。
Impressions of Trying AW97
I downloaded AW97 a long time ago, and today I finally tried it. The extraction and installation were quite smooth, but there was some screen flickering in the Windows 98 window. So I switched to DOS to try it, and there was no screen flickering. I didn't test the performance in detail, but since it's a Chinese character system released in 1997, the performance shouldn't be too bad.
AW97 does fully support GBK Chinese characters. Everyone can open GBK.TXT in the Windows installation folder with EDIT or other editors to check. In AW97, all Chinese characters can be seen, while in other Chinese character systems, the GBK Chinese characters there become garbled.
However, when I ran its input method and then checked the document again, the initial joy disappeared without a trace.
AW97 is currently the only known large character set Chinese character system that supports GBK Chinese characters (unified codes for China, Japan, and Korea). In 1997 when it was released, there were still quite a lot of 386/486 and even low-end 586 computers in use. AW97 that solved the large character set problem should still have a considerable market, but why is it still unknown today? If it weren't for netizens posting it on the forum, I, who used DOS until 1998, wouldn't have known about this Chinese character system at all.
When I ran its input module, I immediately understood the reason why it's not popular - there's no Wubi, and I couldn't find any introduction about the input method interface in all the documents.
As we all know, thousands of Chinese character input methods have emerged in China. Just mention a few famous ones: Wubi Xingzai was invented by Wang Yongmin, Biaoxingma was invented by Chen Aiwen, and Ziranma was invented by Zhou Zhinong, because they all also released Chinese character systems. Wang Yongmin founded Wangma Company and launched the Wangma series of Chinese character systems. Chen Aiwen released the AW series of Chinese character systems. Zhou Zhinong joined Chaoxiang and launched the Chaoxiang Chinese character system. But do you know that these three Chinese character systems also have a common feature: ① all have their own input methods ② all don't have the input methods of the other two ③ all don't have public instructions for the input method interface.
Of course, the Wangma Chinese character system came out early, and Wubi Xingzai was very popular, so it's not excessive that it doesn't have other input methods. It's just that later it didn't pay attention to keeping up with the development of the situation and soon stopped at hard disks above 33M. As for the other two Chinese character systems not supporting Wubi, it's a bit delicate (Chaoxiang can "borrow" the not-so-successful Wubi input method of Kingsoft Chinese character system). Blocking many possible users by themselves is probably one of the reasons for their decline (at least I used Chaoxiang, and its performance was good until I used UCDOS 3.1). On the contrary, let's look at the most prosperous UCDOS. It not only comes with more than 10 common input methods by itself, but also allows users to add or even modify input methods since version 3.1. There are also many user-friendly functions.
As an AW97 that came out in 1997, it completely didn't learn from the previous lessons. It seems that failure was already doomed. Everyone, take a look here (http://www.netcity.net.cn/newspaper/newsdaily/dzwz32/z1.htm). AW96 was selected by Microsoft and had the opportunity to join the PWIN95 camp. As for why it didn't succeed, it's estimated that it's also related to the closure of AW itself.
The success or failure of a software actually doesn't lie in technology or publicity, but the most important thing is the user. Microsoft is the best proof. Microsoft's products are never the best, but Microsoft has always paid the most attention to users' reactions, so its products are the most popular with users. The most lacking in Chinese software companies and developers is exactly this idea. Therefore, many Chinese software products are not short of technology and creativity, but always fail in the market.
AW97 can be said to be a typical example in this regard. Knowing that at that time Wubi input had occupied half the market, and the proportion of people using Wubi in the computer industry was even higher, it just tried to hold on to its own little territory and refused others to step in. We can completely imagine that the computer managers of those units would be very angry and scold when they bought this "only GBK Chinese character system under DOS" and installed it. Can such software succeed? Never.
Thousands of years ago, our great sage Confucius seized power and immediately found an excuse to kill Shao Zhengmao who had been running a school and competing with him. The aftereffect has deeply penetrated into the national marrow for thousands of years and doesn't know how long it will harm in the future.
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