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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Book Request
To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:42:03 -0800 (PST)
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Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> >         between the ORA books and the addison-wesley swoosh series
> >         i must have 20 odd books.
> > 
> >         my wife always asks do you really need those? ;)
> 
> My computer book library dates back to the early 80's, and includes a 
> second printing of K&R (back when it was $17.75 at the college bookstore).
> I had a complete set of the grey Atari ST books from Abacus, and a first
> edition of the Xinu book.  I think I currently have over 250 volumes of
> various computer books, most of which are uselessly out of date.  Sigh.

	well if you want to count all computer books and not just the 
	ORA books and the addison-wesley swoosh series ;)
	hmm.....first editions from mindshare, adobe postscipt 3 volumes
	but this becomes a "mine is bigger" tale.

> 
> TCP/IP books, on the other hand, pretty much never go out of style.
> How long has it been since the FTP protocol, or the sockets interface
> for that matter, have changed?
> 
> I wish W. Richard Stevens would come back from the lecture circuit long
> enought to put together a really good TCP/IP illustrated volume 4, and
> cover HTTP, TLS, and many of the relatively new internet protocols; I 
> could have really used such a book this last year.

	HTTP is covered in volume 3.
	what's TLS?

jmb