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Discover the brilliant, often chaotic origins of the digital world. A witty history of computing covering ENIAC, Grace Hopper, the Apollo 11 code, and the birth of Unix. Book One of the Legacy Code series.
Inside this first volume:
The Von Neumann Architecture
Punched Cards
Assembly.
Grace Hopper
Fortran & COBOL
LISP
IBM System/360
Margaret Hamilton
The 1968 Crisis
Unix & C
SQL database
The birth of ARPANET
Legacy Code - A History of computingFree 360 page book about history of computing
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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I always been fascinated by one thing — most of our modern, high-tech world is basically held together by "Thursday problems." You know, those catastrophic headaches that came from some brilliant solution someone invented on a Tuesday in 1954 or 1972 and nobody questioned it since. I wrote Legacy Code because I wanted to close the gap between the veteran engineer who knows...
Legacy Code - A History of computingFree 360 page book about history of computing