nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (05/30/90)
I got my SE/30 yesterday (replacing a Mac Plus). Just some words of praise for the SE/30 owner's manual. The section introducing the idea of a computer, what it does, what it contains, how disks and processors work, and so on, is very nicely written. It covers all the essential concepts clearly and accurately, and manages to go into a fair amount of interesting and topical detail, without getting too confusing on the one hand, or patronising on the other. The only technical point I might be inclined to dispute is that you need a PMMU to multitask. But I don't want to start off this flame-war again... Not that I need this introductory material myself, but it's one of the best "what a computer is and how it works" articles I've seen anywhere. Kudos to the writer(s). Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss