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Communications software program
PC-Talk is a communications software program. It was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware. It was written by Andrew Fluegelman in late 1982, and helped created shareware's sales and marketing methodology. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PC-TalkA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Concurrent operations on talkInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: IBM PC sharewareThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesityCited 4,414 times
- Go sideways: SharewareA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Andrew FluegelmanA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity
What We Talk About When We Talk About Fat
From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World
Molecular responses to dehydration and low temperature: differences and cross-talk between two stress signaling pathways
Is All That Talk Just Noise? The Information Content of Internet Stock Message Boards
The Ras-ERK and PI3K-mTOR pathways: cross-talk and compensation
Regulation of the heat shock transcriptional response: cross talk between a family of heat shock factors, molecular chaperones, and negative regulators
Talk of the Network: A Complex Systems Look at the Underlying Process of Word-of-Mouth
🆕 Influential since 2022
Concurrent operations on talk
Cheap talk and cherry-picking: What ClimateBert has to say on corporate climate risk disclosures
Embedment of sensing elements for robust, highly sensitive, and cross-talk–free iontronic skins for robotics applications
Thoughts on how to think (and talk) about RNA structure
How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
📚 Books worth reading
IBM PC sharewareJohn R. Ottensmann · 1987
The shareware book using PC-Write, PC-file III, PC-Talk IIIEmil Flock · 1987
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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