The soul of a new machine
by Tracy Kidder
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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances.".
"Tracy Kidder has written a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition."--BOOK JACKET.
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minicomputers, Informatica, Ordinateurs, Design and construction, Ouvrages de vulgarisation, Computer engineering, Conception et construction, Electronic digital computers, Data General Corporation, Popular works, History, Electronic digital computers, design and construction, New York Times reviewed, open_syllabus_project, Architecture des ordinateurs, MiniordinateurPeople
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The Soul Of A New Machine
June 1, 2000, Back Bay Books
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0316491977 9780316491976
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"Originally published in 1981 by Little Brown and Company"--T.p. verso.
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"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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