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Noted systems builder, Lars Nielsen uncovers the dynamic combination of technology, competition and, often eccentric, entrepreneurship that visited shape today's tech panorama. In the military's ENIAC of 1946 to the ripening of the net and e-commerce, Nielsen's Processing: A Business History details the advancement of computing as it offers impacted the models and techniques of marketplaces and professional services around the globe. Nielsen clarifies not only the development of systems, however the ongoing saga of strategic rivalries between such technical firms as IBM, Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook.He studies the surge and semester of companies and systems from the first times of the mainframe when the likes of Sperry Rand and DEC laid unsuccessful siege to IBM's market-share, through the era of House windows vs. Mac pc and beyond. And he vividly depicts the outstanding, but often rapacious, personalities behind the competition that shaped the business enterprise computing environment we realize today.
