Article 1291 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!nntp.twtelecom.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!news.kersur.net!not-for-mail From: "Geoffrey G. Rochat" Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: PDP-3 research offer Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:18:05 -0400 Organization: Kersur Technologies Lines: 32 Message-ID: <8qgopk$s8q$1@news.kersur.net> References: <39CA4CEF.684F5669@ntlworld.com> <6u8zskw0v3.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 02-068.024.popsite.net X-Trace: news.kersur.net 969664116 28954 216.126.160.68 (22 Sep 2000 23:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@kersur.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Sep 2000 23:08:36 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:1291 Mr. Carlini is almost certainly referring to "Computer Engineering" by Bell, Mudge and McNamara, Digital Equipment Corp., 1978, ISBN 0-932376-00-2. If you do not have a copy, or access to a copy, by all means rectify the deficiency as it is *THE* insider reference to all DEC machines up to the VAX11/780. It is written as a collection of case studies of the various DEC machines, busses, software and other entities by the creators of those entities, and tells you why they did what they did, and what they'd do differently had they the chance to do it again. Absolutely fascinating, it should certainly be on the reading list of everybody who monitors this newsgroup. Mr. Carlini speaks of getting his copy down from the shelf; I keep mine on my desk for quicker reference - when it's not on my nightstand. It may be found online at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/Computer_Engineering/index .html Neil Franklin wrote in message <6u8zskw0v3.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch>... >"antonio.carlini" writes: > >> Second time in as many days I get to pluck "Computer Engineering" >> off the shelf. > >With such an generic name there must surely be over 10 books of same >name. Does this usefull one have an Author or even ISBN? > > >-- >Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ >Nerd, Geek, Hacker, Unix Guru, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic