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  1. fr1 Peter Norton, <i>Inside the IBM PC: Access to Advanced Features and Programming</i> (Bowie, MD: Robert J. Brady Co., 1983), 238.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. fr2 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1986), 222. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  3. fr3 Peter Norton, <i>The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC</i> (Bellevue, WA: Microsoft Press, 1985); Peter Norton and Richard Wilton, <i>The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC and PS/2</i>, Second Edition (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1988). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  4. fr4 Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i>; Ray Duncan, ed., <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia: Versions 1.0 to 3.2</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1988). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  5. fr5 David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee, <i>Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006), 109. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  6. fr6 Martin Campbell-Kelly, <i>From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003), 208. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  7. fr7 Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins, eds., <i>Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2016). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  8. fr8 Jimmy Maher, <i>The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga</i> (Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2012). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  9. fr9 Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, eds., <i>Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  10. fr10 Campbell-Kelly, <i>From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog</i>, chapter 9: "Home and recreational software." Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  11. fr11 Peter Norton quoted in, "Digital pioneers help Reed design CS program," <i>Reed Magazine</i> 94, no. 3 (September 2015). https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/september2015/articles/eliot_circular/cs_program.html. Accessed August 20, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  12. fr12 Patrick E. Cole, "Lost a computer file? Call on Dr. Norton," <i>Bloomberg Businessweek</i>, May 23, 1988, 116.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  13. fr13 Peter Norton, "Introduction," in Rob Krumm, <i>Inside the Norton Utilities</i>, Revised and Expanded (New York: Brady Books, 1990).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  14. fr14 Norton, "Introduction," <i>Inside the Norton Utilities</i>, xiv.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  15. fr15 Cole, "Lost a computer file? Call on Dr. Norton," 116.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  16. fr16 Dan Robinson, "Peter Norton tells all!" <i>PC Magazine</i>, September 1983, 557-558.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  17. fr17 Norton, Inside the IBM PC, x.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  18. fr18 Susan Hurley, ed. "Club news," <i>PC Magazine</i>, February 7, 1984, 351-363.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  19. fr19 Campbell-Kelly, <i>From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog</i>, 260.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  20. fr20 William Aspray and James W. Cortada, "Before it was a giant: The early history of Symantec, 1982-1999," <i>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 38</i>, no. 4 (2016): 26-41, here at 34. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  21. fr21 Peter Norton, Peter Aitken, and Richard Wilton, <i>The Peter Norton PC Programmer's Bible: The Ultimate Reference to the IBM PC and Compatible Hardware and Systems Software</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  22. fr22 Peter Norton, "PC languages: The living and the dead," <i>PC Magazine</i>, September 1983, 99-101, here at 99.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  23. fr23 Norton, "PC languages," 101.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  24. fr24 Details about the creation of Turbo Pascal can be found in "Life and times of Anders Hejlsberg," interview by Barbara Fox, <i>Behind the Code</i>, February 1, 2006. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Life-and-Times-of-Anders-Hejlsberg. Accessed July 19, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  25. fr25 Rodnay Zaks, <i>Introduction to Pascal, Including Turbo Pascal</i>, Second Edition (Alameda, CA: Sybex, 1988), 5. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  26. fr26 Jonathan Weber, "Kahn the Barbarian," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 23, 1992.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  27. fr27 Niklaus Wirth, <i>Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs</i> (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  28. fr28 Zaks, <i>Introduction to Pascal</i>, 5.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  29. fr29 Mark Bridger, "Software review: Turbo Pascal 3.0: An update on Borland's compiler," <i>Byte</i> 11, no. 12 (February 1986): 281-286.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  30. fr30 Daniel D. McCracken, "Viewpoint: Ruminations on Computer Science curricula," <i>Communications of the ACM 30</i>, no. 1 (January 1987), 3-5.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  31. fr31 Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wilamuth, and Peter Golde, <i>The C# Programming Language</i> (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2003).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  32. fr32 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS</i>, 469.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  33. fr33 Elizabeth D. Rather, Donald R. Colburn, and Charles H. Moore, "The evolution of Forth," in <i>History of Programming Languages-II</i>, ed. Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson (New York: ACM Press, 1996), 625-670, here at 645. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  34. fr34 Leo Brodie, <i>Starting FORTH: Introduction to the FORTH Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals</i> (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1981). By 1995, the primer had sold a reported 110,000 copies, suggesting the language enjoyed a popular following.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  35. fr35 Rather, Colburn, and Moore, "The evolution of Forth," 642. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  36. fr36 Advertisement, Laboratory Microsystems, Inc., in <i>FORTH Dimensions</i> (published by FORTH User's Group), vol. 5, no. 2 (July-August, 1983), 34.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  37. fr37 Robert Lafore, <i>Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC & XT</i> (New York: New American Library, 1984). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  38. fr38 Ray Duncan, <i>Power Programming with Microsoft Macro Assembler</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1991). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  39. fr39 John D. Unger, "Advanced MS-DOS review," <i>Byte Extra Edition</i>, vol. 11, no. 11 (1986), 23.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  40. fr40 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i>, Second Edition (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1988). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  41. fr41 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced OS/2 Programming: The Microsoft Guide to the OS/2 Kernel for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1989). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  42. fr42 Bill Gates, "Foreword," in <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia</i>, ed. Ray Duncan (Redmond: Microsoft Press, 1988), xiii.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  43. fr43 Gates, "Foreword," <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia</i>, xiv.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  44. fr44 Duncan, <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia</i>, vii-viii.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  45. fr45 JoAnne Woodcock and Michael Halvorson, eds., <i>Xenix at Work</i> (Bellevue, WA: Microsoft Press, 1986).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  46. fr46 JoAnne Woodcock, Michael Halvorson, and Robert Ackerman, <i>Running UNIX: An Introduction to SCO UNIX System V/386 and XENIX Operating Systems</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1990).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  47. fr47 Peter Rinearson and JoAnne Woodcock, <i>Word Processing Power with Microsoft Word</i>, Third Edition (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1989). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  48. fr48 JoAnne Woodcock, <i>The Ultimate MS-DOS Book</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1994). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  49. fr49 Janet Abbate, <i>Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012), 3. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  50. fr50 Larry Osterman, "Does anyone remember the original MS-DOS Encyclopedia? <i>Microsoft Developer Network</i>, June 14, 2004. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/06/14/does-anyone-remember-the-original-ms-dos-encyclopedia/. Accessed August 26, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  51. fr51 H. M. Deitel, <i>Operating Systems</i>, Second Edition (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1990), 629-668.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  52. fr52 See Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer, <i>Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing</i> (Medford, NJ: American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008), 5. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

References

  1. fr1 Peter Norton, <i>Inside the IBM PC: Access to Advanced Features and Programming</i> (Bowie, MD: Robert J. Brady Co., 1983), 238.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. fr2 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1986), 222. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  3. fr3 Peter Norton, <i>The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC</i> (Bellevue, WA: Microsoft Press, 1985); Peter Norton and Richard Wilton, <i>The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC and PS/2</i>, Second Edition (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1988). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  4. fr4 Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i>; Ray Duncan, ed., <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia: Versions 1.0 to 3.2</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1988). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  5. fr5 David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee, <i>Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006), 109. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  6. fr6 Martin Campbell-Kelly, <i>From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003), 208. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  7. fr7 Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins, eds., <i>Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2016). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  8. fr8 Jimmy Maher, <i>The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga</i> (Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2012). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  9. fr9 Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, eds., <i>Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  10. fr10 Campbell-Kelly, <i>From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog</i>, chapter 9: "Home and recreational software." Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  11. fr11 Peter Norton quoted in, "Digital pioneers help Reed design CS program," <i>Reed Magazine</i> 94, no. 3 (September 2015). https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/september2015/articles/eliot_circular/cs_program.html. Accessed August 20, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  12. fr12 Patrick E. Cole, "Lost a computer file? Call on Dr. Norton," <i>Bloomberg Businessweek</i>, May 23, 1988, 116.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  13. fr13 Peter Norton, "Introduction," in Rob Krumm, <i>Inside the Norton Utilities</i>, Revised and Expanded (New York: Brady Books, 1990).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  14. fr14 Norton, "Introduction," <i>Inside the Norton Utilities</i>, xiv.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  15. fr15 Cole, "Lost a computer file? Call on Dr. Norton," 116.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  16. fr16 Dan Robinson, "Peter Norton tells all!" <i>PC Magazine</i>, September 1983, 557-558.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  17. fr17 Norton, Inside the IBM PC, x.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  18. fr18 Susan Hurley, ed. "Club news," <i>PC Magazine</i>, February 7, 1984, 351-363.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  19. fr19 Campbell-Kelly, <i>From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog</i>, 260.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  20. fr20 William Aspray and James W. Cortada, "Before it was a giant: The early history of Symantec, 1982-1999," <i>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 38</i>, no. 4 (2016): 26-41, here at 34. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  21. fr21 Peter Norton, Peter Aitken, and Richard Wilton, <i>The Peter Norton PC Programmer's Bible: The Ultimate Reference to the IBM PC and Compatible Hardware and Systems Software</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  22. fr22 Peter Norton, "PC languages: The living and the dead," <i>PC Magazine</i>, September 1983, 99-101, here at 99.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  23. fr23 Norton, "PC languages," 101.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  24. fr24 Details about the creation of Turbo Pascal can be found in "Life and times of Anders Hejlsberg," interview by Barbara Fox, <i>Behind the Code</i>, February 1, 2006. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Life-and-Times-of-Anders-Hejlsberg. Accessed July 19, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  25. fr25 Rodnay Zaks, <i>Introduction to Pascal, Including Turbo Pascal</i>, Second Edition (Alameda, CA: Sybex, 1988), 5. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  26. fr26 Jonathan Weber, "Kahn the Barbarian," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 23, 1992.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  27. fr27 Niklaus Wirth, <i>Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs</i> (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  28. fr28 Zaks, <i>Introduction to Pascal</i>, 5.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  29. fr29 Mark Bridger, "Software review: Turbo Pascal 3.0: An update on Borland's compiler," <i>Byte</i> 11, no. 12 (February 1986): 281-286.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  30. fr30 Daniel D. McCracken, "Viewpoint: Ruminations on Computer Science curricula," <i>Communications of the ACM 30</i>, no. 1 (January 1987), 3-5.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  31. fr31 Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wilamuth, and Peter Golde, <i>The C# Programming Language</i> (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2003).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  32. fr32 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS</i>, 469.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  33. fr33 Elizabeth D. Rather, Donald R. Colburn, and Charles H. Moore, "The evolution of Forth," in <i>History of Programming Languages-II</i>, ed. Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson (New York: ACM Press, 1996), 625-670, here at 645. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  34. fr34 Leo Brodie, <i>Starting FORTH: Introduction to the FORTH Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals</i> (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1981). By 1995, the primer had sold a reported 110,000 copies, suggesting the language enjoyed a popular following.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  35. fr35 Rather, Colburn, and Moore, "The evolution of Forth," 642. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  36. fr36 Advertisement, Laboratory Microsystems, Inc., in <i>FORTH Dimensions</i> (published by FORTH User's Group), vol. 5, no. 2 (July-August, 1983), 34.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  37. fr37 Robert Lafore, <i>Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC & XT</i> (New York: New American Library, 1984). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  38. fr38 Ray Duncan, <i>Power Programming with Microsoft Macro Assembler</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1991). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  39. fr39 John D. Unger, "Advanced MS-DOS review," <i>Byte Extra Edition</i>, vol. 11, no. 11 (1986), 23.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  40. fr40 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced MS-DOS: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i>, Second Edition (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1988). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  41. fr41 Ray Duncan, <i>Advanced OS/2 Programming: The Microsoft Guide to the OS/2 Kernel for Assembly Language and C Programmers</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1989). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  42. fr42 Bill Gates, "Foreword," in <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia</i>, ed. Ray Duncan (Redmond: Microsoft Press, 1988), xiii.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  43. fr43 Gates, "Foreword," <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia</i>, xiv.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  44. fr44 Duncan, <i>The MS-DOS Encyclopedia</i>, vii-viii.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  45. fr45 JoAnne Woodcock and Michael Halvorson, eds., <i>Xenix at Work</i> (Bellevue, WA: Microsoft Press, 1986).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  46. fr46 JoAnne Woodcock, Michael Halvorson, and Robert Ackerman, <i>Running UNIX: An Introduction to SCO UNIX System V/386 and XENIX Operating Systems</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1990).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  47. fr47 Peter Rinearson and JoAnne Woodcock, <i>Word Processing Power with Microsoft Word</i>, Third Edition (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1989). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  48. fr48 JoAnne Woodcock, <i>The Ultimate MS-DOS Book</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1994). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  49. fr49 Janet Abbate, <i>Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing</i> (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012), 3. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  50. fr50 Larry Osterman, "Does anyone remember the original MS-DOS Encyclopedia? <i>Microsoft Developer Network</i>, June 14, 2004. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/06/14/does-anyone-remember-the-original-ms-dos-encyclopedia/. Accessed August 26, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  51. fr51 H. M. Deitel, <i>Operating Systems</i>, Second Edition (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1990), 629-668.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  52. fr52 See Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer, <i>Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing</i> (Medford, NJ: American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008), 5. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

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        Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America
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