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lapfog_1

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7. along with a couple of others

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 06:42 PM

23 hrs ago

Travels in ComputerLand
and
Mythical Man-Month

Soul of a New Machine was perhaps the best of the era.

edit to add that the HBO series "Halt and Catch Fire" was similar to Soul of a New Machine... but completely fictional. It did cover the same time frame and similar themes.

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Required reading in an 80s college class BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday #2

along with a couple of others lapfog_1 23 hrs ago #7

Required reading in my Software Engineering class, and it was.... reACTIONary 23 hrs ago #8

I wonder how the book would read today..still relevant or dated BlueWaveNeverEnd 20 hrs ago #11

I was wondering that myself, a while back.... reACTIONary 20 hrs ago #12

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We had those Data General machines in the 1980's. jeffreyi 19 hrs ago #14

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