Talk:The Soul of a New Machine

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[edit] movie?

The book cover mentions a forthcoming 'movie' - what became of that, or was it just hype ? MikeW

They were talking about it for a while. I remember because I was in seventh grade (I'm Tom West's daughter) and the idea of having someone play your dad in a MOVIE was an amazing thing to think about, but for one reason or another the project was shelved. Jessamyn (talk) 15:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] canard

Removed this: One side effect of the book was to popularize throughout the computer world the term canard, which had been in-house slang at Data General, with the meaning "mistaken and confused belief".

In fact, canard is an English word dating to the mid-19th century. It comes from the French 'canard' meaning hoax. Saagpaneer (talk) 16:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

It's got a computer slang meaning as well which is cited in the book and appropriate. I'll add a page number cite for it. Jessamyn (talk) 18:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)