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The book mentioned at the bottom "The Making of Microsoft: How Bill Gates and His Team Created the World’s Most Successful Software Company" is a very interesti
by badsectoracula 8y ago
The book mentioned at the bottom "The Making of Microsoft: How Bill Gates and His Team Created the World’s Most Successful Software Company" is a very interesting one. It was actually the first book i read on computing history many years ago and i got hooked to it since then. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Microsoft's early history - and i'd like to find something similar that covers their 90s history to a similar extent (the book only covers up to 1992, but the majority of it is on 80s stuff).
- accidentalrebel 8y agoIf you haven't read it yet try "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. He covers a big chunk of computing history from the hardware hackers at MIT to the game development revolution that spawned from micro computers.
- badsectoracula 8y agoYes, i have :-). It was also very interesting to see the "evolution" of Brøderbund from its early stages in Levy's book to a big slow moving company in Jordan Mechner's Karateka and Prince of Persia diaries (and i'd be very interested to read about the development of The Last Express, which was also developed when Brøderbund collapsed). It is very interesting to piece together these history pieces from the various books :-)