From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 10 22:08:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20491 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA20473; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from xmission.com [166.70.2.43] by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xrGYx-00030T-00; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:07:59 -0700 Message-ID: <34B864B9.903B63CF@xmission.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:20:41 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Book Request References: <199801091428.GAA01091@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 I think I currently have over 250 volumes of various computer books, most of which are uselessly out of date.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