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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: INSIDE THE IBM PC
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 22:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 22:55:09 1984
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I, too, was annoyed by Inside the IBM PC by Peter Norton.  Not only does it
keep referring you to the software package, even with it the book leaves
oodles to be desired.  It is, I will say, sometimes a source of clarification
when the TechRef is mysterious (and for that, you don't need the software.)

My bigest gripe is that the book could be written by almost any
halfway-competent assembler programmer.  That means if you need the
book, you probably already know most of what's in it, and what
you want to know probably isn't in it!

Norton is a great source of information on self-promotion, however,
and is quite open about that being the key to his success.

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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