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From: bn050@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gwochyuan Chen)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: _Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire_
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:20:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr16.082056.15734
Reply-To: bn050@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gwochyuan Chen)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, tbj@techbks1.TECHBOOK.COM (tbj) says:

(edited a little)
>
>Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire              
>James Wallace & Jim Erickson
>Wiley, John, & Sons, Incorporated, 1992.  Hard.  ISBN: 0-471-56886-4.  $22.95.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>This book is the story of Bill Gates and his company, Microsoft.  From his
>earlier years in high school, where he excelled at writing software and
>making deals, to the present, where he controls the largest and richest
>software company in the world, we see how Gates drives towards success.
>
>Like any general, the casualties along the way don't seem to matter much to
>Gates.  He's made dozens of enemies, including alienating IBM to the point
>that IBM and Apple would join forces.  But ten years after Gates vowed to
>put his three major competitors out of business, one was nearly gone,
>another bought out, and the third struggling.  It obviously doesn't pay to
>cross Bill Gates ...
>
>
(signature deleted. Sorry, TECHBOOK)
>
>

Just out of curiosity, what are the companies that Bill Gates vowed to
run them over?
From: agulhati@willamette.edu (Ashish Gulhati)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,misc.comp.forsale
Subject: New Books forsale
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:18:07 GMT
Organization: Willamette University, Salem, OR


These books are BRAND NEW - gifted to me by misguided souls under the
impression that I was interested in operating systems. I'd like to sell
the lot to one buyer if possible.

1. The Waite Group's MS-DOS Bible by Steven Simrin
   List Price - $24.95

2. The Waite Group's UNIX System V Bible by Stephen Prata and Donald Martin
   List Price - $29.95

3. Hayden books' UNIX system library - UNIX Networking, editors
                                       Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick H. Wood
   List Price - $29.95

4. SAMS - UNIX Applications Programming - Mastering the Shell, by Ray Swartz
   List Price - $26.95


I'll sell 'em for $75 including shipping.
From: tbj@p0.f369.n105.z1.TECHBOOK.COM (tbj)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: _UNIX Tool Building_
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 02:35:54 PDT
Organization: TECHbooks Journal, Newsletter of the Gods

UNIX Tool Building                                                         
Kenneth Ingham
Academic Press, Inc., 1991.  225pp.  Hard.  ISBN: 0-12-370830-3.  $49.95.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This book is devoted to showing the reader how to use existing UNIX tools
to write new tools or to use these tools and avoid writing larger programs.
This is done by use of lex and yacc, make, and some core UNIX tools like
head, tail, and grep, plus the UNIX shells themselves.

A program called "watcher" is needed to watch disk consumption, detect
infinite loops, unusual daemon processes, machines crashing, or computers
having problems communicating with the network.  If any of these problems
were detected, the systems person carrying the beeper should be notified.
Ingham takes this problem and breaks it down into logical steps that both
the programs, mainly lex and yacc, and people can understand.  Once the
inputs have been determined and the rules set, it's time to use make to
determine which files need to be compiled.

A chapter is devoted to make, and another to debugging, but the brief
chapter on how to write man pages was especially useful.  A couple of
chapters cover the high points of the shell and a few main programs, with
appendices describing watcher in detail, including the man page and full
source code.

Because UNIX makes it so easy to hack together a new tool, the tools we
make are often not well thought out.  For programs that you plan to use for
more than just a day, following the steps outlined in this book,
<particularly> the documentation, could reap big dividends the program you
wrote "just for yourself" turns up on half the machines in the country.

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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
Subject: Re: `Envisioning Information' ? Book Reference/Review Sought.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 12:40:47 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Keywords: Envisioning Information

In <20218@castle.ed.ac.uk> murray@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Laing) writes:

>`Envisioning Information'

disappointing. An example book for the same author's Visual Display of
Quantitative Information. Many of his examples are good examples of
the opposite of what he cites them for. And he glories in a chart
(that he prepared?) that helped Gotti beat one rap. Morally repugnant.
The text is confusing, unlike Visual Display. It reads like something
knocked out over a weekend under Johnson's law ("No man but a
blockhead ever wrote for any reason but money.")

Pretty though. Worth it for the pictures.
Xref: sparky misc.books.technical:811 alt.books.technical:96 rec.arts.books:7551
From: rajivd@bhelpuri.Eng.Sun.COM (Rajiv Dholakia - SunSoft UE/WST OPS/SDT)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,alt.books.technical,rec.arts.books
Subject: Information Anxiety - Richard Wurman (?)- Info ? Reviews ?
Keywords: information, book, wanted, review
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:32:12 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bhelpuri


Came across a reference to this book the other day.  Has anyone 
browsed it ?  Any idea when it was reviewed in popular press ?
The author's name sounds familiar but I am unable to place him.

I'd appreciate being cc-ed directly on replies.

Thanks

-Rajiv
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: rhc52134@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard)
Subject: Re: _Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire_
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:18:17 GMT

bn050@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gwochyuan Chen) writes:

>Just out of curiosity, what are the companies that Bill Gates vowed to
>run them over?


IMHO, one of them might be Lotus.

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From: jjc+@pitt.edu (Jeffrey J. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Books on electronic mail and directory services
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:48:59 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: jjc@aquamarine.cis.pitt.edu

Hello,

I am looking for references to books on electronic mail and on
directory services.  

Please send me a list of any useful books that you know of on these
subjects.  I will make a compilation of the responses I receive and
make it available.

Thanks,


	jeff

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From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Ran Atkinson)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Please recommend introductory book on KornShell
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:56:15 GMT
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Distribution: na
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC

In article <1992Apr14.224039.2607@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> nk4v@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Naohiro  Koshiya) writes:

>I now have a difficulty to learn about K-shell with a book that is
>almost a manual.  I have a trace of knowledge on C-shell.  My purpose
>is to get able to write tiny but effective shell scripts in K-shell.
> I would appreciate any practical guidance.  Thank you,

  Far and away the best book to use with the Korn Shell is the book by
Bolsky & Korn (approximately) titled "The KornShell Command &
Programming Language" and published by Prentice-Hall.  

  I happen to know that the Newcomb Hall Trade Bookstore usually
stocks this book (in the back along the right hand wall, often shelved
with the UNIX books rather than with the K book titles).  It is also
available to borrow from the UVa Sci-Tech Library.

  I've seen another book on ksh but it had errors and the content was
much less useful and I don't recommend it to anyone at all.

Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc ref wanted
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:07:36 GMT

In article <garzione.703361555@convex.convex.com>
garzione@convex.com (Michael Garzione) writes:
>Does anyone know of a good lex/yacc reference?  I've already got O'Reilly's;

You know.  I doubt one exists.  I have been using these tools lately.
Here's what I've come to conclude:
1) The original paper by Mike Lesk was written with version 6 C in it:
	e.g., "=+" rather than "+=."
2) Johnson's YACC paper has typos and a its useful, but you have to read
	closely between the lines.
3) You really want to know about vars and functions which they don't tell
	you about.
4) Looking at 4 additional compiler books (including the draft manuscript
	of a Yacc for physicists book with chapters like yacc and
	optics, general relativity, etc.), I don't like any of them.
5) Oh, the bison paper is sometimes helpful.

So I will write something, maybe a paper, for future reference.....


Now if anyone has a copy of M. Bongard's book Pattern Recognition
(no longer in print) I'd like to talk to you.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
This is the Usenet: do you expect anything other than gross generalizations?
Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
From: tbj@techbks1.TECHBOOK.COM (tbj)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: _Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire_
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 13:30:10 PDT
Organization: TECHbooks Beaverton, OR


Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire              
James Wallace & Jim Erickson
Wiley, John, & Sons, Incorporated, 1992.  Hard.  ISBN: 0-471-56886-4.  $22.95.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Imagine an extremely smart, billionaire genius who is 14 years old and
subject to temper tantrums."
-a former Microsoft project manager

"A bad personality and a great intellect.  In a place like Harvard, where
there are a lot of bright kids, when you are better than your peers, some
tend to be nice and others obnoxious.  He was the latter."
-Harvard's computer center director

This book is the story of Bill Gates and his company, Microsoft.  From his
earlier years in high school, where he excelled at writing software and
making deals, to the present, where he controls the largest and richest
software company in the world, we see how Gates drives towards success.

Like any general, the casualties along the way don't seem to matter much to
Gates.  He's made dozens of enemies, including alienating IBM to the point
that IBM and Apple would join forces.  But ten years after Gates vowed to
put his three major competitors out of business, one was nearly gone,
another bought out, and the third struggling.  It obviously doesn't pay to
cross Bill Gates ...


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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: garzione@convex.com (Michael Garzione)
Subject: Lex/Yacc ref wanted
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:12:35 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Does anyone know of a good lex/yacc reference?  I've already got O'Reilly's;
Thanks.
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garzione@convex.com           Education Center
From: felps@cactus.org (Robert Felps)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: New Book: Illustrated UNIX - System V/BSD
Keywords: book UNIX user commands ksh vi awk
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:27:12 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Wordware Publishing, Inc. via CACTUS


Illustrated UNIX - System V/BSD
Robert Felps
1992, Wordware Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 1-55622-187-8
Paperback, 706 pages
$24.95

From the back cover:

  If you're looking for the complete guide to the UNIX operating
  system, this is it.  Designed for novices as a tutorial and for
  experienced users as an in-depth reference, this book is written in
  an easy-to-follow format.  Based on AT&T UNIX System V Release 4 and
  Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) 4.3, this book gives the latest
  information on UNIX as well as hands-on activities that take the
  mystery out of the cryptic UNIX command set.

  Robert Felps is a software consultant specializing in the UNIX
  operating system.  Mr. Felps' background includes classroom
  instruction and training for UNIX users and he has served as a UNIX
  System Administrator, UNIX Network Administrator, UNIX System
  Specialist, and a UNIX Network Product Specialist.

More about the book:

  Illustrated UNIX is comparable to a combination of a UNIX vendor's
  User's Reference Manual and User's Guide.  The goal was to have one
  book that would be a learning tool as well as a reference for
  knowledgable users.  It provides complete documentation and examples
  for 150+ user commands.

  Features:

  + There are two learning sequences, one for System V and another for
    BSD commands, which guide the new user through the UNIX command set.

  + Each module (command) contains a "Typical Operation" section to step
    the reader through an exercise using the command.
    
  + The options and arguments for each command are presented in an
    easy-to-read list format for easy reference.

  + The Korn shell has been split into several modules with each internal
    shell command being discussed as an individual command.
    
  + There are complete modules on new awk, ex, ksh, and vi.
    
  + Appendix B contains questions for each module, allowing instructors
    to use the book as course material for college and corporate education
    without having to generate questions.


All volume purchases should be directed to the following address or
phone number.  Individual purchases can be made at your local book
store, if they do not have the book, you might request they order it.
User groups should contact Wordware for discount prices.

     UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Wordware Publishing, Inc.     | Posted by felps@cactus.org for Wordware
1506 Capital Avenue           | Wordware does not have a USENET feed.
Plano, Texas 75074            |
(214) 423-0090                |
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: kfieldin@gollum (Kenneth H. Fielding)
Subject: wanted: Computer Vision by Ballard and Brown
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 13:49:47 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology



I am looking for a used copy of
Computer vision by Ballard and Brown

If you are willing to sell a copy
please contact me at

kfieldin@galaxy.afit.af.mil
From: tbj@p0.f369.n105.z1.TECHBOOK.COM (tbj)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: _Object-Oriented Simulation with Hierarchical, Modular Models: Int_
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 07:56:35 PDT
Organization: TECHbooks Journal, Computer Book Newsletter of the Gods

Object-Oriented Simulation with Hierarchical, Modular Models: Intelligent  
Agents & Endomorphic Syste                                                 
Bernard P. Zeigler
Academic Press, Inc., 1990.  408pp.  Paper.  ISBN: 0-12-778452-7.  $49.95.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This book shows how the concepts of multifaced modelling methodology can be
implemented in a knowledge-based environment for object-oriented modelling
and simulation.  The result is a practical step toward treating simulation
models as knowledge --- modular, chunkable, inspectable, archivable, and
reusable.

The book introduces the DEVS-Scheme knowledge-based simulation environment
and its underlying DEVS (discrete event) formalism.  Using hierarchical
models of autonomous robots, the book shows how making and using models are
essential activities of intelligent agents.  The book also develops a new
concept called endomorphy, which characterizes the way that intelligent
agents employ self-embedded models, including models of self, in
decision-making.  The general concepts of hierarchical, modular model
construction are described in sufficient detail for readers to reproduce
the DEVS approach in their own object-oriented programming systems.

The DEVS-Scheme environment will interest theorists and practitioners alike
because of its fundamental use of the object-oriented paradigm.  The
concepts of reusable, multi-abstraction model bases and endomorphic systems
will be of particular interest to those concerned with building intelligent
autonomous systems.

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From: brent@cs.pitt.edu (Brent C. Baxter)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Summary of books for roff.
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:32:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

Hello all -

I want to thank the people that did respond to my request for a book
to help me with the roff page formatting.  A few people had asked me
to forward them the information I found ... so I thought that there
may be f few more people interested in what responces I got.

Here is a summary of the responces I got along with a few quotes (if
any) on some of the books made by the respective people who sent them.

1. From: autodesk!andy@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Andrew Purshottam)

   My personal favorite book on troff is _Unix For People_ by Birns et
   al.  It's better in my opinion that the revised verion (Unix Made
   Simple|Easy?).


2. From: cdl@mpl.UCSD.EDU (Carl Lowenstein)
   
   Unix Nroff/Troff: A User's Guide
   Kevin P. Roddy
   Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1987
   ISBN 0-03-000167-6


3. From: alley@argon.berkeley.edu (Rod Alley)

   Try "The UNIX text processing system" by Kaare Christian and published
   by Wiley.  It's not near me at the moment, so I'm not sure whether it
   distinquishes between troff, nroff, psroff, etc., but that may not be
   important (it`s never been to me).  It does have good coverage of tbl,
   eqn, -ms and -mm macros.  There are tables in the back of the book
   that let you quickly look up a command of any kind, and I've found it
   easy to quickly find an example in the text that I could use with
   minor modifications.  I think you'll find it's what you want.


4. From: sat@tridom.uucp (Stephen Thomas)
 
   UNIX Text Processing
   Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly
   Hayden Books (a division of Howard K. Sams & Company)
   ISBN 0-8104-6291-5


Enjoy!
- Brent Baxter

===============================================================
Brent C. Baxter           |  Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh  |
Pittsburgh, PA            |  Internet: brent@speedy.cs.pitt.edu
===============================================================
From: rajiv@dvorak.amd.com (Rajiv Malhotra)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Fiirst Order Logic
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:55:03 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas


Can someone recommend a book which explains First Order Logic. 
I am reading about Datalog (knowledge based system) in 
Jeffrey Ullman's "DataBase and Knowledge Base Systems" and having
a difficult time with it.

Thanks.  

- Rajiv

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From: tto@aspentec.com
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,comp.misc,alt.books.technical
Subject: Looking for "EWD" notes
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:29:49 EST
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Distribution: world
Organization: Aspen Technology, Inc. Cambridge, MA.

Fellow Netters,

Does anyone out there has a set of "EWD" notes by Edsger W. Dijkstra?

I have most of EWD700 through EWD1004.  I would like to complete my collection
and get the newer ones.

I can either pay for the copies or borrow them and make my own copies.
For the latter, I can pick up in either the Boston or NYC area; or exchange
the material via fedex/ups/mail.  I promise to take good care of the notes!

Also, I mailed to someone (I forgot whom) years ago asking to be put on the
subscription list but have never received anything.  Either I mailed
to the wrong person/address or I was not qualified to be on the list.  Does
anyone know who manages the subscription list these days?  Are the notes
available in electronic form nowadays?

Please reply by e-mail.

Thanks,
Tak.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Tak To
Box 45, MIT Branch PO, Cambridge, Ma 02139.
Phone: (617) 497-9020 x377
E-mail: tto@aspentec.com
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From: ajayshah@alnitak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Termcap documentation -- here is the dope
Date: 13 Apr 1992 23:33:26 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu

A short while ago I wrote a posting on this group saying
the documentation for GNU termcap is splendid.
I got lots of requests for pointers.

So I'm broadcasting here an announcement which just appeared
on gnu.misc.discuss.

From: djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,comp.terminals
Subject: GNU termcap library available
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:53:41 GMT

The GNU termcap library, which has been distributed as part of GNU
Emacs for years, is now available as a separate package to make it
more convenient to install as -ltermcap.  It is available for
anonymous ftp on prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] as
pub/gnu/termcap-1.0.tar.Z.  Other archive sites will soon carry it as
well, so try one nearest you.

      [ Soon to be at these ftp sites as well.  Please try them
	before prep.ai.mit.edu!  thanx -len

	archive.eu.net, src.doc.ic.ac.uk, ftp.funet.fi, isy.liu.se,
	ftp.diku.dk, ugle.unit.no, ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, archie.au,
	wuarchive.wustl.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com, uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, and
	ftp.uu.net (under /packages/gnu).
      ]

The GNU termcap library does not place an arbitrary limit on the size
of termcap entries, unlike most other termcap libraries.

Included is extensive documentation in Texinfo format.

Please report any bugs in this library 
	bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu


-- 

Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu