[comp.misc] book about PRIME

bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr) (05/26/89)

Are you sure you don't mean Data General rather than Prime? The
description sounds a lot like the book _The Soul of a New Machine_.
I think the author's name was Tracy Kidder or something close to that, and
it was about the politics, the human stories, and some of the technology in
bringing out a new DG machine.
Bob Wilson
Ford Aerospace
(bobw@wdl1.fac.ford.com)

logant@lafcol.UUCP (Tracy Logan) (05/30/89)

I was trying to track down a book for someone who said it had to do with
some guys at Prime and a new computer etc.  Though I rejected the hypothesis
that it might be Kidder's book *The Soul of a New Machine*, because that book
is clearly about Data General, I have been convinced by several letters 
and postings that there is no book about Prime in that vein, 
and the original requestor simply confused the two companies. 

Thanks for the ideas -- and I'll second the comments that described
the Kidder book as a good read.