FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software by Kerry Nietz. It is about the development of FoxPro, the late 80s massively successful xBase clone that was acquir

FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software by Kerry Nietz. It is about the development of FoxPro, the late 80s massively successful xBase clone that was acquired by Microsoft. Programmers At Work by Susan Lammers is a series of interviews with programmers (Charles Simonoyi, Gary Kildall, Bill Gates, Daniel Ratliff and so on), in the 80s when Microsoft had just 160 employees, "multimedia" was a buzzword, and Bill Gates was trying to understand how CD-ROMs would change everything. The programmers talk about how they built their favorite software, and there are certain philosophical nuggets about computing that is unsullied by the complexity and sophistication that the field acquired later. Coders At Work by Peter Seibel, written in the vein of Lammer's original work. This time it speaks to a different set of programmers including Joe Armstrong, Ken Thompson and other stalwarts.