[Tutor] OT: Is there a good book that covers the history/evolution of software? [Inspired by the thread: lists, name semantics]

[Laura Creighton]

Newman, W., Sproull, R. (1979), Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, Mcgraw-Hill College, ISBN 0-07-046338-7

is a very good read.  It is understandably dated, but then it was
history that you were looking for.  And the book has 2 parts -- a
history of the computer architectures we had (in 1979) and then
the part on how to make grapical programs on them.

Laura