Contents

• Introduction
• Working Paper
• Information Letter 1
• Information Letter 2
• What to Name the Company
• Information Letter 3
• Information Letter 4
• Initial Stock Distribution
• Information Letter 5
• Information Letter 6
• Information Letter 7
• Information Letter 8
• August 1982 Meeting
• AutoCAD-80 Development Log
• 1982 Annual Meeting
• Quality Department Priorities
• Meetings: December '82, January '83
• February 1983 Meeting
• March 1983 Meeting
• June 1983 Meeting
• AutoCAD Wish List
• Crisis Letter
• John Walker's Business Plan
• Proposed Autodesk Organization
• July 1983 Meeting
• Low Rent 3D
• Electric Malcolm
• October 1983 Meeting
• Piece of Cake
• Information Letter 10
• Information Letter 11
• The Deal on the Table
• AutoCAD Lite
• Taxes and Such
• Why Lisp?
• Number One
• Prime Time
• Initial Public Offering
• Surplus Value
• Information Letter 12
• Time of Turbulence
• Speech at Silverado
• Super Programmers
• CAD: the Heart of Computer Science
• The Computer Revolution
• AutoBits
• Flat-out Programming
• Hardware Lock Debater's Guide
• Information Letter 13
• Cadetron and Solid Modeling
• Removing the Hardware Lock
• Urgent Fury
• The Portable Data Base
• Breaking the 3D Logjam
• Jeremiad
• Urgent Worry
• The Golden Age of Engineering
• Cosmic Perspective
• External Tanks
• Source Distribution
• The Morning After
• Glasnost
• Where's It All Going?
• Xanadu
• Bored of Directors
• Valedictory
• L'Envoi: the First Six Years
• Technological Leadership
• Through the Looking Glass
• AutoCAD Expo Moscow
• Golden Hammer
• One Hundred Million Dollars
• The New Technological Corporation
• Generic Software Acquisition
• Why Cellular Automata?
• Understanding AMIX
• Batting .300
• We'll Return, After This Message
• Caustic Moment
• The Hardware Lock Strikes Back
• “Autodesk Arrogance”
• Why Molecular Modeling?
• Whither AutoCAD?
• Nanotechnology in Manufacturing
• Max Q
• Information Letter 14
• View from the Ridge
• Valuing Corporate Image
• Simulation Isn't Reality
• The New Autodesk
• Choose Wisely
• Added Value
• Stating the Problem
• Al Green Retires
• Incentives, Deterrence, and Defence
• Searching for a New CEO
• European Software Centre
• The Dark Night of the Soul
• Reporter at Work
• AutoCAD for Windows
• MicroTimes
• New Leadership for Autodesk
• Farewell, Xanadu
• Micro Engineering Solutions Acquisition
• Patent Nonsense
• Programs Are Programs
• AutoCAD LT
• Creation/Evolution
• Ten Years After
• Before Autodesk
• The View from Sweden
• Autodesk Trivia Quiz
• Financial Results
• Autodesk Stock Price History
• Product Release History
• About this Edition
• Contents
• Index