The Autodesk File (2017)

[tambourine_man]

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

[jsnell]

This isn't really from 2017, it's just a reformatted version of the 1994 version.

[wrycoder]

Richard Gabriel, "Patterns of Software"

http://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

Among other things, read the section "Into the Ground", which is the story of Lucid, Inc. in the late '80s.

[jumelles]

I wish this sort of thing were more common. For all the power they have, corporations are remarkably opaque.

[eisstrom]

Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?

[Jugurtha → eisstrom]

For memo, I just created a file so the list could be augmented at: https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/creation_proces...

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Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I really liked:

- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner - Masters of Doom - David Kushner. - Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (aggregate of stories)

Pretty cool in different ways:

- The first shows how the author documented a good chunk of the process (like solving the problem of the Prince's alter ego).

- The second by the journalistic work the author went through and access he had.

- The third by the context it gives on many things (for example, you get a glimpse on Palantir's current work by looking into Paypal's history and the work Max Levchin, CTO at the time, and his team did on fraud detection, or Hotmail's growth tactics).

[iTokio → eisstrom]

Big Blues, about IBM/Microsoft is an interesting read.

[bluedino → eisstrom]

Almost Perfect, about WordPerfect’s rise and fall.

[wbl → eisstrom]

Soul of a New Machine.

[sanxiyn → eisstrom]

Show-Stopper! for Windows NT and Microsoft.

[zafiro17]

"Dec is dead! Long live DEC!" It's a decent telling of DEC's rise and fall for those of us that missed it but are curious. Written by an insider.

[smoyer]

I was around for Autodesk's heyday in the '80s and read previous editions twice - it's an interesting story and a great read!

[agumonkey]

lots of files on this website