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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:49:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211115094900.230FC21F15@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2O1cOP8VQWUhuWgA+ZSe1zskFvFfhcvNCK60YpHLttPVA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Clem,

> > > > > > ISBN 978-0-262-54299-0
> > ...
> > > >     https://amzn.to/3qDVV8G
> > > >     ISBN-13: 978-0262542906
> > > >     ISBN-10: 0262542900
...
> > Three: the ISBN you gave doesn't match Amazon's.  :-)
> > That's how I tried finding it first and why I thought the URL might
> > be useful.
>
> That the us never from the back cover of my copy
>
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual

I error-correct that to ‘That was the US number from...’.  :-)
If so, I think you've either missed a subtlety in the emails,
something's gone wrong in publishing, or you had a pre-print where they
didn't know the final number for the back cover?

Yours: 978-0-262-54299-0  Fails ISBN's check-digit
 Mine: 978-0-262-54290-6  Added dashes to match
 Diff:               ^ ^

Amazon's ‘Look Inside’ shows a paperback ISBN-13 of 9780262542906 which
matches what they put on their web page.  OpenLibrary give the same,
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL32702646M/A_New_History_of_Modern_Computing
as does the Library of Congress catalogue entry.

Anyway, it does look interesting.  I see from the index that they even
mention the Acorn Archimedes, the world's first consumer device with a
RISC chip, the Acorn RISC Machine, AKA the ARM 2.  I learnt ARM
assembler on the A310 model before switching to the R140 which shipped
with RISC iX, Acorn's Unix, and I still get asked to do the odd bit of
swtch() assembler porting on embedded ARM Cortex.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-15  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-14 14:37 Clem Cole
2021-11-14 14:55 ` Dennis Boone
2021-11-14 16:35   ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-14 18:20     ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-14 18:44     ` Clem Cole
2021-11-14 18:52       ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-14 19:27         ` Clem Cole
2021-11-15  9:49           ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2021-11-16  3:16 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16  4:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-11-16 14:56   ` Clem Cole
2021-11-16 15:37     ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 15:50       ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-16 17:02     ` Will Senn
2021-11-16 21:38       ` John Cowan
2021-11-16 21:46         ` Will Senn
2021-11-16 18:27     ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-16 18:44       ` Heinz Lycklama
2021-11-16 14:57 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 15:22 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 15:52 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23  2:28 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-11-23  7:57   ` Henry Bent
2021-11-23  8:10     ` arnold
2021-11-23  8:28       ` Henry Bent
2021-11-23 17:26     ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-23 18:54       ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 19:04         ` Al Kossow
2021-11-23 19:39           ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-11-23 19:08       ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 21:54   ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-11-24 15:18     ` Richard Salz
2021-11-24 15:45       ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-24 18:34       ` Rich Morin
2021-11-24 18:40         ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-24 19:39           ` Clem Cole
2021-11-24 20:02             ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-25 10:26           ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-11-24 20:13       ` arnold
2021-11-24 20:18         ` Will Senn
2021-11-25  7:22         ` arnold
2021-11-24 20:15       ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 20:21         ` joe mcguckin
2021-11-24 20:27         ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 21:27           ` Richard Salz
2021-11-24 22:19       ` Charles Anthony
2021-11-16 17:00 Douglas McIlroy
     [not found] ` <CAKH6PiXinxBQGRqoeGMcG9CwTA5BNeU-LY164f-ZLYA4obsyuA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-11-16 18:47   ` John Foust via TUHS
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 21:35 ` Duncan Mak
2021-12-02 22:32   ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 22:34   ` Rob Pike
2021-11-16 19:49 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 20:02 ` Dan Cross
2021-11-16 23:16   ` Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-24 15:50 Norman Wilson
2021-12-03  2:50 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-06  4:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-06  4:42   ` Dan Halbert
2021-12-06  5:18     ` Charles H. Sauer

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