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From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog

A History of the Software Industry (History of Computing)

By Martin Campbell-Kelly

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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 handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers of corpContinue

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 handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers of corporate software packages and then makers of mass-market products and recreational software. This book tells the story of each of these types of firm, focusing on the products they developed, the business models they followed, and the markets they served.

By describing the breadth of this industry, Martin Campbell-Kelly corrects the popular misconception that one firm is at the center of the software universe. He also tells the story of lucrative software products such as IBM's CICS and SAP's R/3, which, though little known to the general public, lie at the heart of today's information infrastructure.

With its wealth of industry data and its thoughtful judgments, this book will become a starting point for all future investigations of this fundamental component of computer history.

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    From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry by Martin Campbell-Kelly 376pp, MIT Press, £19.95 The age of hi-tech warfare began in 1952, when a prototype computer system enabled US Air Force operators to track r ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry

    From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog is a history of the software industry in the United States, down to 1995. It avoids technical details — there's little about software engineering and programming languages, for example, or developments ... (read full critics)

    dannyreviews published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 388 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 026253262X
  • ISBN-13: 9780262532624
  • Publisher: The MIT Press
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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