Contents
Cover
1
Acknowledgments
11
Introduction
13
I - THE BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY
29
1 - The Age of the Altair
31
2 - From VisiCalc to Activision: The Beginning of the Software Industry
47
II - THE EARLY YEARS
67
3 - The View from Brøderbund
69
4 - Legendary Programmers
84
5 - Legendary Entrepreneurs
122
6 - The Brotherhood
150
III - THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN THE 1980S
191
7 - Enter IBM
193
8 - Enter the Venture Capitalists
203
9 - Enter the Software Marketers and Developers
218
10 - The Shakeout
233
11 - The Software People of Japan
258
What Lies Ahead?
275
Index
288
Cover
296
