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"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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- Author
- Tracy Kidder
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 293
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Little Brown and Company, Birkhauser
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, German, heb, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780713914825
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“All the way to the horizon in the last light, the sea was just degrees of gray, rolling and frothy on the surface.”
John Tracy Kidder is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his *The Soul of a New Machine*, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. - Wikipedia
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