how is Robert X. Cringely and Accidental Empires related?
Accidental Empires: Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996), is a book written by Mark Stephens under the pen name Robert X. Cringely about the founding of the personal computer industry and the history of Silicon Valley. Robert X. Cringely: Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in "InfoWorld", the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG.
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