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by adhesive_wombat
1570 days ago
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It's not quite what you're asking (more about engineering, and only post-war British projects, from Black Knight to the Beagle probe), but Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford is very interesting. I especially liked the battle to sequence and publish the human genome before Celera could do the same and slap down a patent on it. The story of the development of Elite is also a fun insight into the challenges of programming in the 80s where every byte mattered. |
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