Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:42:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <199801120042.QAA25634@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <34B864B9.903B63CF@xmission.com> from "Wes Peters" at Jan 10, 98 11:20:41 pm
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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 various computer books, most of which are uselessly out of date.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
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