Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:20:41 -0700 From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <34B864B9.903B63CF@xmission.com> References: <199801091428.GAA01091@hub.freebsd.org>
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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various computer books, most of which are uselessly out of date.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.
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.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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