From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 8366 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2021 09:49:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 15 Nov 2021 09:49:45 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B13129C20B; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:49:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D2F9C1E2; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:49:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2A6719C1E1; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:49:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from relay05.pair.com (relay05.pair.com [216.92.24.67]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F9BA9BCFF for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:49:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from orac.inputplus.co.uk (unknown [87.112.39.90]) by relay05.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53C11A2BC1 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 04:49:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from orac.inputplus.co.uk (orac.inputplus.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by orac.inputplus.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230FC21F15 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:49:00 +0000 (GMT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org From: Ralph Corderoy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: References: <20211114145541.B53742B56EE@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> <20211114163538.9F6CD1FB32@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <20211114185220.B54B71FB32@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:49:00 +0000 Message-Id: <20211115094900.230FC21F15@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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.