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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Single user setup
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Date: 16 Dec 90 17:18:15 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ comp.sys.next / aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) / Dec 12, 1990 /
> As it happens, there is a *very* good book out, called the NeXT Bible,
> that covers everything a somewhat naive user would need to know.

That book is so full of false statements, that "a somewhat naive user"
wouldn't know which statement is true and which isn't.  If you learned from
that book, you learned about some system other than Unix on some machine
other than NeXT, one that exists only in the author's imagination.

For more details, pick up my review of that book from the Buzzings (or
BuzzNUG or NUJ) directory at any of the major ftp arthives for NeXT stuff.
(It's a separate WriteNow file.)

> It got
> me going on my first date with the Cube, and even introduced me to a
> bit of programming. It also covers general, non-NeXT-specific stuff
> about the history of UNIX, networking, etc.

I don't write book reviews very often, but I just had to write that one, to
warn beginners away from that book.  I'm sorry that you missed it.  The
chapter on networking is the most ludicrous one in the whole book.  If you
ever have to do networking, you'd be much better off knowing nothing at all
than having read that chapter.

The NeXT Bible is a well-written book of science fiction.

Jacob
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