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Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
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Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.
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Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.
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By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
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Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
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History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
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Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
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Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
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Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
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Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation.
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History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
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Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
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Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
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Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
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A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
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Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
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Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
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Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
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Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
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A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.
