Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!knrgroup From: knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Steve Jobs Message-ID: <1990Nov11.221513.12829@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 11 Nov 90 22:15:13 GMT References: <1990Nov11.190751.5518@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 West of Eden is an excellent book on the more recent years at Apple. Michael Moritz's Little Kingdom chronicles the earlier years. The Accidental Millionaire espouses the thesis that Steve Jobs rode the coattails of Wozniak to fame and riches. However, the Accidental Millionaire reads too much like it was written by a businessman with no technical expertise making technical arguments, with sometimes comical effects. John Sculley's Odyssey is very revealing, of both Sculley and Jobs. When reading any of these books though, read between the lines and realize that objectivity is nearly non-existent in biographies and histories. A good book, after all, usually argues a controversial thesis.