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From: ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Deja vu?  Architecture book name?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 04:20:39 GMT
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In article <35644@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
> I've read the beta copy, and I think it's going to be a terrific book,
> a classic for years for both working engineers and students.
> Anybody who follows this newsgroup seriously should have one; many of the
> silly arguments would disappear and we could get on to other things...

It'll be a calssic as long as nobody else is sufficiently crazy to
put as much effort into a book on the subject for a while.  Just like
Knuth could be vastly improved, but nobody's that masochistic.
(Sometimes I even wonder about Knuth...)

Still, it's a good book.  I like *my* beta copy (acquired slightly funnily,
as I'm not taking the course), despite the sometimes hilarious typos.
("<something> is indicated with a superscript like this: <subscript> and
<something else> is indicated with a subscript like this: <superscript>.")

I just hope the publisher knows that if they think I'm defacing my copy
by ripping out the discount order form with useful information on the
back, they're crazy.  If you want people to remove it, make sure it's
blank on the other side!
--
	-Colin