Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: INSIDE THE IBM PC Message-ID: <2647@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 22:55:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2647 Posted: Fri Jun 1 22:55:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:39:49 EDT References: duke.4396 Lines: 18 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 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary