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3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous
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Abort Retry Fail attempts to cover the history of the computing industry. Click to read Abort Retry Fail, by Bradford Morgan White, a Substack publication.
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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World
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The QNX Operating System
Quantum Software and the microkernel UNIX
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'Be' is nice, end of story
pick a name from the dictionary, it can work
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The History of S.u.S.E
The other enterprise Linux company
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The Olivetti Company
Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
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The Berkeley Software Distribution
UNIX is always litigious
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
Graphics for Professionals
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The History of Windows 2.0
Success and Litigation
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Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android
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Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation
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Sun: The Network Is the Computer
The story of Sun Microsystems and the Java programming language
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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster
The Sound Blaster
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The History of Windows XP
NT Vincit Omnia
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The British Micro Behemoth
Or, how a precocious youth briefly conquered the UK
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The History of Microsoft Encarta
Searchable Human Knowledge
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The LaserDisc
The first mass market optical media
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
a perfectly miserable son of a gun builds Silicon Valley
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The History of Windows 95
The Dawn of Microsoft's Golden Age
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Intel: Winning and Losing
Idling at a Zenith
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The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
Structured Text on the Internet before the World Wide Web
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The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)
Vulcan & dBASE
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The History of DR DOS
The last of Digital Research
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The Birth of Chipzilla
Or, the early history of Intel Corporation