Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945 in New York City) is an American author of multiple books. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data General's Eclipse/MV minicomputers.

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November 12 - 1945 - New York City - Computing - Pulitzer Prize - The Soul of a New Machine - Data General - Eclipse/MV minicomputer

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One side effect of that book was to popularize throughout the computer world the term canard, which had been

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in-house slang at Data General, with the meaning "mistaken and confused belief".

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Slang - Data General

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