Title: In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line

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Title: In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line Title Record # 197819
Author: Neal Stephenson
Date: 1999-11-00
Type: NONFICTION
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2002^ⓘTranslated by Juliane Gräbener-Müller.	German	Die Diktatur des schönen Scheins: wie grafische Oberflächen den Computernutzer entmündigen

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type
In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line	1999-11-00	Neal Stephenson	Avon Books	0-380-81593-1	$10.00^?$: US dollar	151	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	non-fic
In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line	1999-11-00	Neal Stephenson	Topeka Bindery	0-613-91737-5			hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic
Die Diktatur des schönen Scheins: wie grafische Oberflächen den Computernutzer entmündigen	2002-00-00	Neal Stephenson	Goldmann	3-442-15177-5	€6.90^?€: Euro	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	non-fic

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Reviews

Review by Russell Letson (2000) in Locus, #468 January 2000
Review by Toren Carsten (2000) in Talebones #18, Winter 2000
Review by Charles de Lint (2000) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2000
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2000) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2000
Review by Paul Di Filippo (2000) in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2000