chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Chih-Hsiang Chou) (05/29/90)
I just had a short glance of the Apple's new book: "Guide to the Macintosh Family Hardware, 2nd edition", published by the Addison Wesley. It covers detail descriptions of various hardware components of the whole Macintosh family line, from the obsolete Mac 128K to the recent Mac IIfx. I find it much organized and informative than the previous edition. However, in less than five minutes of reading, I've found at least two errors in the book. I wonder how these obvious errors were not caught before the print. ERROR 1: in table 1-1 on page 2, the memory management IC of the Mac portable is described as part of MC68030, a severe error. The same erroneous table also appears on pages 48 and 88. ERROR 2: on page 4, the last paragraph says that Mac SE has a faster processor clock (16 MHz) than the Mac Plus, another severe error. Does anyone find other errors? -- Chih-Hsiang Chou chou@cs.umn.edu Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
noah@Apple.COM (Noah Price) (05/30/90)
In article <1990May29.063536.9195@cs.umn.edu> chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Chih-Hsiang Chou) writes: >in less than five minutes of reading, >I've found at least two errors in the book. I wonder how these obvious >errors were not caught before the print. Oops! Looks like some stuff got mixed up... I don't believe either of the problems you mentioned were present in the "final draft." I imagine some quick changes were made just before the book went to press, and some mixup occurred. As a reviewer for both the new Guide to Macintosh Family Hardware and the new Designing Cards and Drivers book, I can assure you that the writers were *very* conscientious, and made every effort to assure that the information was accurate and up to date. Please e-mail me any other problems you find -- I'll forward them to the proper people in tech pubs, to help resolve any errors for future revisions! I'll watch for followups as well, but it's easier for me to forward mail. noah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ noah@apple.com Mac IIci Hardware Design Team ...!{sun,decwrl}!apple!noah (not the opinions of) Apple Computer, Inc.
isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (05/30/90)
In article <41432@apple.Apple.COM> noah@Apple.COM (Noah Price) writes: >Please e-mail me any other problems you find -- I'll forward them to >the proper people in tech pubs, to help resolve any errors for future >revisions! I'll watch for followups as well, but it's easier for me >to forward mail. I don't mean to Apple-bash, but future revisions? There's a word I don't hear often. I've been living with the multitude of errors in Inside Mac I-V for years now, sans revisions which are so sorely needed. Finally SpInside Mac is coming, even though I'll have to devote 8+ megs on my hard disks so I have the programming reference manual that I should have had all the time. *sigh* Ken -- Ken Hancock '90 | Now that I'm employed, Consultant | standard disclaimer applies. :-) Computer Resource Center |============================================== Dartmouth College | EMAIL: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu