home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!c3q
- From: c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Question: books on industry history?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.151714.16128@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:17:14 EST
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Cornell University
- Lines: 29
-
- I'm currently a senior majoring in CS and history. Somehow, I conned my
- history prof into letting me do my research paper on the [recent] history of
- computer companies- research shouldn't be bad, as I've already read >1/2 the
- books! :)
-
- I'm now looking for the other 1/2 of the books. I've got Hackers, Oddyssey
- (sp?), Valley on Fire, Soul of a New Machine, Father & son & co.
-
- Any important titles that spring to mind that I am missing.
-
- So far it appears as if there is no "serious" (i.e. payed for by a grant, and
- not the market :) work on the topic. Any lurking computer buff/sociologists
- out there who'd like to disprove me and cite sources?
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- - Travis J.I. Corcoran
- tcorcora@sunlab.cit.cornell.edu
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Like a government, the operating system performs no useful function by
- itself. It simply provides an environment within which other programs can
- do useful work.
-
- _Operating System Concepts_, 3rd edition
- Silberschatz, Peterson, Galvin
-
-
-
-