In the Beginning...was the Command Line
On Sale: 11/09/1999
In the Beginning...was the Command Line
On Sale: 11/09/1999
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About the Book
This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780380815937
- ISBN 10: 0380815931
- Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
- On Sale: 11/09/1999
- Pages: 160
- List Price:15.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : COMPUTERS / General
- BISAC2 : COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Spreadsheets
- BISAC3 : COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / UNIX
- BISAC4 : COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Linux
