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An edition of The Soul of a New Machine (1981)

The Soul of a New Machine

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  • ★★★★ 4.1 (15 ratings) ·
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  • 25 Have read

"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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Publisher
Avon
Language
English
Pages
293

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Subjects

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, Miniordinateur

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Data General

Times

Late 1970s

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The Soul Of A New Machine
June 1, 2000, Back Bay Books
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The soul of a new machine
1997, Modern Library
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The soul of a new machine
1990, Avon
in English
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Eagle
1982, Flammarion
in French
Cover of: The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
1982, Avon
in English
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The soul of a new machine
1982, Avon
in English

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Table of Contents

Prologue : -- A
good man in a storm -- -- 1.
How to make a lot of money -- -- 2. The
wars -- -- 3.
Building a team -- -- 4.
Wallach's golden moment -- -- 5.
Midnight programmer -- -- 6.
Flying upside down -- -- 7. La
Machine -- -- 8. The
wonderful micromachines -- -- 9. A
workshop -- -- 10. The
case of the missing NAND gate -- -- 11.
Shorter than a season -- -- 12.
Pinball -- -- 13.
Going to the fair -- -- 14. The
last crunch -- -- 15.
Canards -- -- 16.
Dinosaurs --
Epilogue --
Acknowledgments.

Edition Notes

Originally published in 1981 by Little Brown and Company.

"First Avon printing, August, 1982"--T.p. verso.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1981

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
621.39
Library of Congress
TK7885.4 .K53 1982

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 p. ;
Number of pages
293

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24951788M
ISBN 10
0380599317
ISBN 13
9780380599318
OCLC/WorldCat
10510127
Wikidata
Q7765374

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL98218W

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