The Soul of a New Machine
1981 non-fiction book by Tracy Kidder / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000.[1]
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Author | Tracy Kidder |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Computer engineering |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | July 1981 |
Media type | Hardcover |
Pages | 293 pp |
ISBN | 978-0-316-49170-9 |
OCLC | 7551785 |
621.3819/582 19 | |
LC Class | TK7885.4 .K53 |
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The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art"[2] is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company,"[3] and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[4] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.