Descripción

Ejemplar nuevo. New. This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a comercial product; the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s; the spread of net-working after 1985; and, in a chapter written for this edition, the period 1995-2001. The new material focuses on the Microsoft antitrust suit, the rise and fall of the dot-coms, and the advent of open source software, particulary Linux.