Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition and still can't get a date
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Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition and still can't get a date
Penguin, 1996
Reprinted with new material
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Originally published: London : Viking, 1992
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production, and illegal drugs, personal computers are one of the largest manufacturing industries in the world, and one of the great success stories for American business. This book is linked to a Channel 4 television series entitled "The Triumph of the Nerds".
Table of Contents
- The demo-god
- the tyranny of the normal distribution
- why they don't call it computer valley
- amateur hour
- role models
- Chairman Bill leads the happy workers in song
- all IBM stories are true
- software envy
- clones
- the prophet
- font wars
- on the beach
- economics of scale
- counter-reformation
- future computing
- wait, there's more!
- do the wave.
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