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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

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Addison-Wesley
Language
English
Pages
324

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Subjects
Computer industry, History, Informatique, Industrie, Computerindustrie, Computer industry -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County), New York Times reviewed, Microelectronics industry, california, santa clara valley (santa clara county), Industrie et commerce
Places
California, Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County), Santa Clara County, Californie, Santa Clara, Vallée de (Santa Clara)

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Accidental Empires
April 4, 1996, Penguin Books Ltd
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Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date
1996, Penguin
in English - Rev. and updated ed.
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Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date
1996, HarperBusiness
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Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make theirmillions, battle foreign competition and still can't get a date
1993, Penguin
in English
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
Feb 05, 1993, Harperbusiness
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Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date
1993, Harper Business
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Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date
1992, Viking
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Accidental Empires
September 14, 1992, Viking
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Accidental Empires
February 1992, Harper Audio
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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."

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.4/7004/0979473
Library of Congress
HD9696.C63 U51586 1991, HD9696.C63U51586

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 324 p. ;
Number of pages
324

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1547685M
Internet Archive
accidentalempire00crin
ISBN 10
0201570327
LCCN
91027089
OCLC/WorldCat
24141993
Library Thing
84017
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1843343

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