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
Preface
Chapter One: The Demo-God
Chapter Two: The Tyranny of the Noraml Distribution
Chapter Three: Why They Don't Call It Computer Valley
Chapter Four: Amateur Hour
Chapter Five: Role Models
Chapter Six: Chairman Bill Leads the Happy Workers in Song
Chatper Seven: All IBM Stories are True
Chapter Eight: Software Envy
Chapter Nine: Clones
Chapter Ten: The Prophet
Chapter Eleven: Font Wars
Chapter Twelve: On The Beach
Chapter Thirteen: Economics of Scale
Chapter Fourteen: Counter-Reformation
Chapter Fifteen: Future Computing
Index
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Includes index.
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