An edition of Accidental empires
(1992)
Accidental empires
how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date
by Robert X. Cringely
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First Sentence
"The woman of my dreams once landed a job as the girls' English teacher at the Hebrew Institute of Santa Clara."
Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Includes index.
"A William Patrick Book."
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