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throy930493 on Sept 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died

"Sweating Bullets", "Almost Perfect" (http://www.wordplace.com/ap/), "The Autodesk File" (https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/) and "Show Stopper!" were a few books that I think pair very well, and as a developer who wasn't around in the time really gave interesting and comparable insights into the development of a few really important companies and pieces of software.

canucker2016 on Sept 9, 2023 [–]

For Visicalc, Dan Bricklin has a few blog posts: http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm

For Aston-Tate's dBase app, there's this blog post about its history: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-ashton-ta...

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