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From airline reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog : a history of the software industry /

"A business history of the software industry from the days of custom programming to the age of mass-market software and video games. From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Colección:History of computing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The software industry
  • Origins of the software contractor, the 1950s
  • Programming services, the 1960s
  • Origins of the software products industry, 1965-1970
  • The shaping of the software products industry, the 1970s
  • The maturing of the corporate software products industry, 1980-1995
  • Early development of the personal computer software industry, 1975-1983
  • Not only Microsoft: the maturing of the personal computer software industry, 1983-1995
  • Home and recreational software
  • Reflections on the success of the US software industry.