The Soul of a New Machine
by:
Tracy Kidder (author)
Data General was in danger of losing its edge in the high technology war. Thirty wiz kids--design engineers--were given the job of building a computer more advanced than anything that then existed--and under an absolutely impossible deadline. A Pulitzer Prize-winner from Tracy Kidder.
Data General was in danger of losing its edge in the high technology war. Thirty wiz kids--design engineers--were given the job of building a computer more advanced than anything that then existed--and under an absolutely impossible deadline. A Pulitzer Prize-winner from Tracy Kidder.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679602613 (0679602615)
Publish date: June 24th 1997
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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