Accidental empires
Subtitle: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date
By: Robert X. Cringely.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Computer industry -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
First sentence: The woman of my dreams once landed a job as the girls' English teacher at the Hebrew Institute of Santa Clara.
Notes: Includes index.
"A William Patrick Book."
Table of contents: title: The demo-god; title: The tyranny of the normal distribution; title: Why they don't call it computer valley; title: Amateur hour; title: Role models; title: Chairman Bill leads the happy workers in song; title: All IBM stories are true; title: Software envy; title: Clones; title: The prophet; title: Font wars; title: On the beach; title: Economics of scale; title: Counter-reformation; title: Future computing.