ARPA Does Windows: The Defense Underpinning of the PC Revolution

Fong Glenn R.
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Fong Glenn R.: Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management

Business and Politics, 2001, vol. 3, issue 3, 1-26

Abstract: The Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) has aggressively and persistently supported technologies key to the personal computer (PC) revolution. Uncovering this political-economic link provides an important corrective to the popular lore surrounding the origins of the PC. In their emphases on private sector initiative and entrepreneurial risk-taking, conventional PC histories conform to orthodox market-based explanations of technological and economic progress. In contradistinction, this article "brings the state back in" to the PC realm of apparent market purity.

Date: 2001
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