Re: Books

scott <[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2010 20:50:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.turnkey-mvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/28/2010 05:50 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
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>> Both the used book section of amazon.com and eBay's half.com
>> have many computer books for very low prices.
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>> There is, for example, the J Rande "MVS Performance Management"
>> on half.com for $0.75 (plus about $4 shipping).
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>> I haven't decided to buy it, but it is there.
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>> (There is also one for sale at $30.01, wishfull thinking.)
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>> Now, there is also Carmine Cannatello's "Advanced Assembler
>> Language and MVS Interfaces" for $523.83 which I won't be
>> buying. (plus $4.00 shipping).
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>> There is a slight discount for shipping multiple books at
>> the same time, which helps when buying the $0.75 books.
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> Having an autographed copy of Mr. Cannatello's book, I would estimate
> that very few people involved in this discussion are ready for the
> techniques and methods described therein. :-)
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> Some of the material was new to me, and I've been programming
> Assembler for exits, JES2 exits, etc. for 41 years.
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> Rick <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Books>
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  Same here.  A very worthwhile book if you can find it at a reasonable
cost.

Scott