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If you have time to list the other books that you own like this and "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet", I'd definitely appreciate it. I l

• lobster_johnson 9y ago
  "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsof" by G. Pascal Zachary is great, about an interesting period of Microsoft's life.
• krylon 9y ago
  Not sure if it fits your bill, but I found "I Sing The Body Electronic" by Fred Moody a very interesting read. Moody was able to get some pretty intimate insights into the development of a software product at Microsoft at the beginning of the 1990s (1992-1993, I think). I was surprised to learn afterwards that Moody had (has?) a reputation for being very pro-Microsoft; this book does not embellish the problems the people on the project team face, nor their conflicts.
• segmondy 9y ago
  "We were burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age"
• polarix 9y ago
  I liked "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture" which sounds related... I hadn't heard about PLATO before, and the book was strongly redolent of "online culture".
• yeukhon 9y ago
  I will add as well: "The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution"