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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

Title
Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date / Robert X. Cringely.
Author
Cringely, Robert X.
Publication
New York : HarperBusiness, [1996], ©1996.
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Description
xiii, 370 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • Computer industry > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
  • Computerindustrie
  • Informatique > Industrie et commerce > Santa Clara (Calif ; comté)
Note
  • Includes index.
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 -- But wait, there's more! -- Do the wave.
ISBN
  • 0887308554
  • 9780887308550
LCCN
96034100
OCLC
  • ocm35151300
  • SCSB-14266744
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries