brad@kontron.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) (01/19/87)
Spending a few months in jail for unpaid parking tickets? Upcoming
transplanetary trip? Visiting in-laws?
You need heavy duty technical reading matter. What could be heavier than
New Flavors from Symbolics? For $50, you get 193 pages of Flavors
documentation corresponding to the Genera 7.0 release, and 148
pages of printed source code, complete with pithy comments and
names that stretch nearly half way across the printed page.
Machine readable sources are available on IBM PC-DOS floppies for
an additional $25, Symbolics cartridge tape for $75 or 9-track tape
for $100.
I noticed a terse announcement in Byte (of all places), and followed
up with a call to the local Symbolics office. Though they were not
immediately familiar with the offer, within a few days they became so,
and sent a license agreement and order form package. The document and
floppies arrived a few days ago, about 3-4 weeks after I ordered.
Interesting stuff for the curious.
I am not affiliated with Symbolics. This being posted for its potential
interest to the non-Lisp-Machine Lisp community, because it seems not
to have otherwise been very widely announced, and because the price is
within the range presently charged (oh, woe) for ordinary technical
books.
Brad Yearwood
Kontron Electronics {voder, pyramid}!kontron!brad
Mountain View, California