On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:07 PM, John R. Sundman <j...@wetmachine.com>wrote:
> > >>> Tracy Kidder's book "Soul of a New Machine" >>> >> > > Added the book to my reading list. What kind is it? >> > > Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book about a team of hardware > engineers working for Data General Corporation 1978-80 who design a > computer under enormous time pressure in order to save their company from > being put out of business by their main competitor, Digital Equipment > Corporation, which had just come out with much more powerful and cheaper > machines. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 or so, and has been in > print continuously since, having sold millions of copies. Some people > consider it, still, the best description of who hackers are and how they > (we?) think. I myself think it's an excellent book. Tracy Kidder is a > wonderful writter who has gone on to write a dozen or so non-fiction books, > many of them best-sellers and award-winners. > > Sounds really interesting, thanks. (And in an example of thread-drift ...) I read Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains, about Dr. Paul Farmer, and found it fascinating. Welcome, John -- sounds like you've had a fascinating life so far. I'm also hoping you're a Red Sox fan.
