info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (06/29/84)
Date: Tue 26 Jun 84 15:34:01-PDT From: uw-beaver!:Tony.Siegman@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Subject: Books On the Macintosh? Sender: uw-beaver!G.SIEGMAN@SU-SCORE.ARPA To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Reply-To: G.SIEGMAN@SU-SCORE.ARPA An earlier message on this bboard recommended "The Apple Macintosh Book" by Cary Lu (Microsoft Press). I bought this book, and find it of very little value, at least for anyone with any significant previous computer experience. While it contains a few nuggets of information buried here and there that slightly extend what is given in the elementary Mac documentation, it mostly contains very elementary information about how to use the Mac; a lot of largely irrelevant and discursive information about other computer topics, programs, and the e; and not much else. I don't find it's organization or presentation particularly clear or outstanding. In particular, I don't find a clear explanation, which I would like to have gotten, of the fundamental organization of the Mac (how the Finder, the system, and the various applications are organized and interrelated, and how this differs from more conventional computers). I also don't find much detailed technical information, beyond the limited amount in the documentation that comes with the Mac. Obviously, the $150 version of "Inside Mac" lies at the other extreme (and Stanford's Computer Department Library now has a copy); but if you're looking for something that falls somewhere in between "Inside Mac" and the elementary documentation, Lu's book isn't it. If there exists such a book, I'd like to hear about it. -------