Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: ARM - where and when? Message-ID: <5030002@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 14 Jan 91 05:53:18 GMT References: <1991Jan7.180831.8592@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 30 / ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) / 9:24 am Jan 14, 1991 / writes: $ Just FYI, I've seen Stroustrup's classical C++ book printed in Hongkong, and $ it was a cloned, ripped off, "no money back to the originator" edition. $ Possible. There were cheap K&R C book printed in India (looks like they were printed on toilet paper). They were going for about $10 a pop. $ You usually recognize these pirated books from the cover; cheap imitations $ of the real ones. I would not personally support buying these pirated versions, $ don't know if the book above one is a pirated or not, but the ASIAN edition $ label sounds weird. $ The ASIAN edition is perfectly legal. I don't know where exactly they were printed in; but apparently Addison Wesley (as well as McGraw-Hill etc.) has a policy to release the cheaper version in Asian a few months after the introduction in USA. ... There is a time difference. So, you can't get it cheap if you cannot wait. Regards, . .. ... .- -> -->## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include