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JSR_FDED 2 days ago

Should be compulsory reading. Actually, now that I think about it, this would make a great interview question in the AI era: “what did you think of Soul of a new machine?”

abdulhaq 2 days ago | parent [-]

I found Showstopper! even more compelling

ghaff 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Those two books are probably the two best about tech projects I've ever read. I worked at Data General as a product manager for about 13 years and know many of the individuals although I joined a few years after the book was written.

le-mark 2 days ago | parent [-]

What strikes me is the stories that never get told. I met a retiree at a Java meetup once who had worked at Zilog during the z8000 era. He was surprised to meet someone who knew about that.

ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-]

Especially, pre-web and pre-blogs there's a great deal of tech industry history that largely doesn't exist any longer unless it was especially notable and/or some author decided to spend a year or two writing about it.

JSR_FDED 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Cool thanks for the recommendation!