Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date /

Cringely, Robert X.

Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date / Robert X. Cringely - Newly revised and expanded [edition]. - New York : Harper Business, c1993 - xiii, 370 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Chapter 1. The demo-god -- Chapter 2. The tyranny of the normal distribution -- Chapter 3. Why they don't call it computer valley -- Chapter 4. Amateur hour -- Chapter 5. Role models -- Chapter 6. Chairman bill leads the happy workers in song -- Chapter 7. All ibm stories are true -- Chapter 8. Software envy -- Chapter 9. Clones -- Chapter 10. The prophet -- Chapter 11. Font wars -- Chapter 12. On the beach -- Chapter 13. Economics of scale -- Chapter 14. Counter-formation -- Chapter 15. Future computing -- Chapter 16. But wait, there's more -- Chapter 17. Do the wave

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