Re: My reading list
[email protected] (Hildo Biersma)
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Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:25:44PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > :-) For those who haven't read them the Steve Maguire books are > > really really good. Hallo, no matter what you think of the software > > they shrinkwrap and sell they must (as a huge software company) have > > thought quite a bit about how to get it there. > > It's a shame they don't stick to products that they are definitely good at: > hardware and books. I disagree. The original M$ hardware included such gems as RAM cards for CP/M boxes and they were definitely unreliable. So, yeah, _some_ of the books and _some_ of the hardware may be good, but that sure wasn't always the case. Hildo