chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) (04/09/90)
I've just received a new list of Digital Press books, via my DECUS mailing label. I'd be quite happy to buy a couple of them but ... Many have said that John Quartermain's "The MATRIX: Computer Networks and Conference Systems Worldwide" is a definitive book about networking and the Internet, but at $127, Digital Press mustn't want to sell any. Similarly, finding out about that thing called VMS can't be all bad for my education. I can buy a 4.3BSD Lefler etal. or a SysV Bach for about $35 each, but Digital Press want $160 for VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures" (paperback! and its only Ver4.4). Don't they want to sell any? Not even DECUS discounts! Anybody know of some exclusive bookstores selling these at reasonable prices? ------------------------- chris@budgie.cs.uwa.oz.au
jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon) (04/09/90)
chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes: >Similarly, finding out about that thing called VMS can't be all bad for my >education. I can buy a 4.3BSD Lefler etal. or a SysV Bach for about $35 >each, but Digital Press want $160 for VAX/VMS Internals and Data >Structures" (paperback! and its only Ver4.4). Cheezy Beets! I bought the VMS Internals for v4.4 a little over a year ago and it was just $75 (just! ha!). There was another copy at Madison Books and Computers in Huntsville; maybe it is still there (maybe they will ship to Oz). The Unix books are *much* better; you must know a fair amount about VMS before the book will make any sense whatsoever. Save your money... ---- jnixon@atl.ge.com ...steinmetz!atl.decnet!jnxion
mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) (04/11/90)
In article <1563@wacsvax.OZ> chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes: >I've just received a new list of Digital Press books, via my DECUS mailing >label. I'd be quite happy to buy a couple of them but ... > >Many have said that John Quartermain's "The MATRIX: Computer Networks and >Conference Systems Worldwide" is a definitive book about networking and >the Internet, but at $127, Digital Press mustn't want to sell any. At BookStop (a regional (?) discount bookstore in Austin), I paid somewhere around $40.00-$50.00 for a softbound copy of _The Matrix_. Maybe Digital Press is binding the version you saw in one of those gray VMS V5-style binders (part # xxx-0123-yyy :-) :-) And by the way, if you're doing networking and want to get a comprehensive view of the *big* (i.e. world-wide) picture, _The Matrix_ is indeed a book worth having. -- Mic Kaczmarczik mic@emx.utexas.edu (Internet) Unix/VMS/Cyber Services mic@utaivc (BITNET) UT Austin Computation Center ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!mic (UUCP) COM 1 / UT Austin / Austin, TX 78712 ``Good tea. Nice house.'' -- Worf Please direct consulting questions to gripe@{emx,ix2,ccwf,iv1} as appropriate.
iris@sequoia.execu.com (Iris Strey) (04/11/90)
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By the way, did you know that BookStop is now owned by B. Dalton?
Yup, just as you thought you could go to a big and nice bookstore
in the U.S. that was not run by Walden Books or B. Dalton .........
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