| In the Beginning...Was the Command Line Contributor(s): Stephenson, Neal (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380815931 ISBN-13: 9780380815937 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Cryptonomicor" comes a hilarious commentary on computer operating systems and what they reveal about our culture. "(Stephenson) is the hacker Hemingway."--"Newsweek." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Operating Systems - Linux - Computers | Social Aspects - Computers | Operating Systems - Unix |
| Dewey: 005.43 |
| LCCN: 99040450 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.34" W x 8.02" (0.31 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stephenson, Neal: - Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington. |