Publication

Little, Brown and Company, Boston, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

Word Count

73,250 words, Guess

Page Count

293 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100316491977
  • ISBN-139780316491976
  • LibraryThing6055
  • OCLC Control Number44864448
  • Open LibraryOL22594827M

Description

"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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