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From: mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: austin.general,comp.edu
Subject: Re: The price of Digital Press books
Message-ID: <28005@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 05:36:22 GMT
References: <1563@wacsvax.OZ>
Reply-To: mic@emx.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix/VMS/Cyber Services
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In article <1563@wacsvax.OZ> chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes:
>I've just received a new list of Digital Press books, via my DECUS mailing
>label. I'd be quite happy to buy a couple of them but ...
>
>Many have said that John Quartermain's "The MATRIX: Computer Networks and
>Conference Systems Worldwide" is a definitive book about networking and
>the Internet, but at $127, Digital Press mustn't want to sell any.

At BookStop (a regional (?) discount bookstore in Austin), I paid
somewhere around $40.00-$50.00 for a softbound copy of _The Matrix_.
Maybe Digital Press is binding the version you saw in one of those
gray VMS V5-style binders (part # xxx-0123-yyy :-) :-)

And by the way, if you're doing networking and want to get a
comprehensive view of the *big* (i.e. world-wide) picture, _The
Matrix_ is indeed a book worth having.



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