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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

Brand: Penguin Books Ltd

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UPC:
9780140258264
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1996-04-04
Author:
Robert X. Cringely
Language:
english
Edition:
2nd
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This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production, and illegal drugs, personal computers are one of the largest manufacturing industries in the world, and one of the great success stories for American business. This book is linked to a Channel 4 television series entitled The Triumph of the Nerds .