From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>,
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Book Recommendation
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:22:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W6aYi5yW12vCJgKg5QjOvNQrfYDrRiyTi-=GXN2vkmU6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Og5X1NizpLU6coi9xEs25ff2JaWGyKkYX2iCUqXUaipA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:15 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> Adam - first thank you. Pleased to know he's still kicking around.
>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 11:26 PM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think Don ever had a lot of crossover with the more academic
>> world of Unix people, but he's one of my heroes and I have learned a hell
>> of a lot from his works.
>>
> Not true at all. If you grew up as EE, in the late 1960s/early 1970s it
> was hard to not know about him since he was so prolific. FWIW, before I
> went to CMU, he was already a hero and I had a number of books from the
> late 1960's. When I was freshman in the early 1970s, his TTL Cookbook was
> an optional text for the intro to EE course [I already had it but a number
> of my mates had never seen it before]. His CMOS Cookbox was not published
> yet, but when it was, I bought it.
>
Indeed, still well-known: I have both his TTL and CMOS cookbooks within
easy reach.
- Dan C.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-06 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-03 2:50 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-06 4:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-06 4:42 ` Dan Halbert
2021-12-06 5:18 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-12-06 14:11 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Clem Cole
2021-12-06 14:22 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2021-12-06 14:29 Noel Chiappa
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