"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. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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- Informatica
- Ordinateurs
- Design and construction
- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Computer engineering
- Conception et construction
- Electronic digital computers
- Data General Corporation
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- History
- Electronic digital computers, design and construction
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- Architecture des ordinateurs
- Miniordinateur
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