Amazon.com: Computing Classics

Computing Classics
A Listmania! list by Craig Hollister

1. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

$28.75 Used & New from: $7.90
(173 customer reviews)

2. The Computer Establishment by Katharine Davis Fishman

The list author says:
	"Fishman writes 'During the sixties, IBM's leading competitors were known in the computer industry as the Seven Dwarfs. ... in 1967, the dwarfs were Sperry Rand, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, RCA, NCR, General Electric and Burroughs.'"

Used & New from: $0.01

3. The UNIX Hater's Handbook: The Best of UNIX-Haters On-line Mailing Reveals Why UNIX Must Die! by Simson L. Garfinkel

The list author says:
	"Still hilarious, even when the details behind the humor are no longer true or applicable. Here it is in PDF form, no barf bag though: http://www.simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf"

Used & New from: $0.04
(26 customer reviews)

4. The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann by Herman Heine Goldstine

$49.95 Used & New from: $0.01
(5 customer reviews)

5. The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The list author says:
	"Sign me up!"

$12.64 Used & New from: $0.01
(88 customer reviews)

6. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

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(112 customer reviews)

7. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond

$11.66 Used & New from: $0.01
(61 customer reviews)

8. Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors by Joel N. Shurkin

$22.95 Used & New from: $0.01
(10 customer reviews)

9. In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

The list author says:
	"I am, more than not, a command line kind of a guy. Read it for free in in plain text format here: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html But if you are a command line kind of a person, you would probably rather hold the paper book in you hand?"