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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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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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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.
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