# Data General's Tom West dies • The Register

<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/tom_west_obit/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I loved reading [The Soul of a New Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine) and the history of Data General and [Tom West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_West). It is too bad that he never experienced that same level of success again.

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