Research Catalog

Title

Open : how Compaq ended IBM's PC domination and helped invent modern computing / Rod Canion.

Author

Canion, Rod.

Publication

Dallas, Texas : BenBella Books, Inc., [2013]

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Details

Description

xxii, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

An account of the founding of Compaq reveals the absence of software standardization that challenged the fledgling company and the series of risky decisions that directly influenced the establishment of an open PC standard marketplace.

Subject

• Compaq Computer Corporation
• IBM Corporation
• Compaq Computer Corporation
• Computer industry > United States > History
• Microcomputers > United States > History
• IBM microcomputers > History
• COMPAQ Portable Computer > History
• Computer industry > History. > United States
• Microcomputers > History. > United States
• COMPAQ Portable Computer
• Computer industry
• IBM microcomputers
• Microcomputers
• Personal Computer
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.
• 其他题名:How Compaq ended IBM's PC domination and helped invent modern computing.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: One.An Unlikely Beginning -- Two.The Road Less Traveled -- Three.The Best Defense Is a Good Offense -- Four.Opportunity Knocks -- Five.IBM Fires the First Shot -- Six.Back at You, IBM -- Seven.Patience Pays Off -- Eight.You're Going to Do What?! -- Nine.The "Death Star" Arrives -- Ten.Compaq's Most Unexpected Decision -- Eleven.Compaq Leads the Revolt -- Twelve.Intel Begins to Drift -- Thirteen.Exceeding Expectations -- Fourteen.The Open Industry Standard Wins.

ISBN

• 9781937856991
• 1937856992
• 9781936661923 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013022597

OCLC

• ocn826444694
• 826444694
• SCSB-1788027

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library