Origins of Software Bundling

doi:10.1109/85.988580

Origins of Software Bundling

Pugh, Emerson W.

The bundling of software and hardware in a single product package predates electronic computers and can be traced back to information-processing pioneer Herman Hollerith in the late 1800s.

Publication:

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Pub Date:

2002

DOI:

10.1109/85.988580

Bibcode:

2002IAHC...24a..57P

Keywords:

Information processing;
Hardware;
Contracts;
Companies;
Strontium;
Government;
Physics;
Electronics packaging;
Software packages;
Packaging machines

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Origins of Software Bundling

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