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The new store is set to open its doors unofficially sometime in July, with an official large-scale grand opening in September. It will be the second-largest computer book store in the world, almost as big as our famous flagship store in San Jose. The new Computer Literacy Bookshop is in Tysons Corner, Virginia, minutes from D.C., near two shopping malls. For easy access, our Tysons Corner store is close to major thoroughfares, with free parking. On the shelves, you' ll find thousands of different titles on computing, electronics, high-tech management and related topics. We carry a far greater selection than other stores because we deal with more than 1,000 different publishers. We stock many titles carried by no other bookstore in the world. And we are often the first store to offer the newest titles. Besides the best selection of books, you will find something more in Tysons Corner: knowledgeable staff. We hire people with technical backgrounds, so when you ask a technical question, you don' t get glassy-eyed stares--you get answers. Our people know computer books, so they can help you find the book you need. (All the reviews in this New Book Bulletin were written by our staff.) See the map above for the address and phone number. We look forward to seeing you there! TYSONS CORNER, VA 8603 Westwood Center Dr. (703) 734-7771 ===================== E-mail ordering info: See bottom of file ===================== ========== Macintosh ========== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Telecommunications: The Macintosh Modem Book Stephen Taylor, MIS Press, 374 pp., $19.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Demystifies much of the confusing terminology,and explains the different resources availible online. In addition, there are numerous practical tips for working in a Macintosh and non-Macintosh environment. -DH Order no. BD464056 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Apple Computer, Addison-Wesley, 600 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Both a teaching and a reference guide. Covers getting started with QuickTime and the basics on use and functions. --TP Order no. BD474347 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BMUG' s Quicker QuickTime Judith L. Stern/Robert A. Lettieri, BMUG Inc., 88 pp., $12.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This beginner book/disk set takes you from " What is QuickTime?" to " Making Movies." Disk contains two movies and the QuickTime extensions to help explain some of the concepts in the book. --WG Order no. BD520419 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- QuickTime How-To Book Sam Miller/Arno Harris, Sybex, 411 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers the basics from installing QuickTime to producing an interactive production. Disk has QuickTime movies, sound- only movies, animations, etc. --MM Order no. BD507801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Desperately Seeking Solutions: A Troubleshooting Guide to the Mac Erica Kerwien, Hayden, 493 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn how to prevent hardware and software problems, cure viruses, solve storage problems (both SCSI and floppy), diagnose system problems (including peripherals, software, and hardware). Disk contains a disinfectant (for killing viruses), and a SCSIProbe (for troubleshooting hard disks). Also included: a " Don' t Panic" troubleshooting map which you can hang by your Mac.--MM Order no. BD508119 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Power Toolkit Maria Langer, Hayden, 428 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Compares 234 Mac utility programs in 65 categories; for instance, seven file compressors. Lots of useful softwareÑso no games, but some of these utilities are fun. Comes with two disks containing 37 shareware and freeware programs. The author is a long-time Mac pro who runs the Electronic Pen, one of the oldest Mac BBSs. --VE Order no. BD508130 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HyperProgramming: Building Interactive Programs with Hypercard George Coulouris/Harold Thimbleby, Addison-Wesley, 405 pp., $30.25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A fresh, exciting book for aspiring Hypercard programmers, designers, and developers. A retreat from the " dictionary" style of programming references, this book uses a tutorial approach with lots of examples and projects. The chapters on graphical and animation techniques are particularly good. Disk includes many of the sample stacks discussed in the text. --TO Order no. BD447470 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Think C Programming for the Macintosh Using Simulator C Dan Parks Sydow, Prima/St. Martin' s Press, $49.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, an understandable C programming tutorial! Written for someone with beginning to intermediate programming experience, this book/disk lets you read the chapters in the book and then view and interact with Simulator C. Chapters include text, graphics, windows and more. --WG Order no. AS528596 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symantec C++ Programming for the Macintosh Neil Rhodes/Julie McKeehan, Brady, 683 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A detailed examination of the Symantec C++ environment (from source file creation to debugging), as well as a general over-view of C++ and object-oriented techniques. Disk gives source code to sample programs. --KO Order no. BD501946 ==================================== Computer Trivia Crossword Puzzle Answers ==================================== To help celebrate Computer Literacy Bookshops' 10th birthday this year, we conducted the World' s Toughest Computer Trivia Contest Crossword Puzzle. Your responses were very entertaining. We got phone calls. We got e-mail. We got letters. Some people thanked us for the fun. Some people wanted hints. Some people wanted to argue. One man wrote, " Your list of definitions contains at least one mistake. In 4 Horizontal, San Jose has no Jobs Street and no Wozniak Street, and neither of those names has the required six letters. But Saratoga (not San Jose) has a Scully Avenue; this fits the space, but John Scully is by no means a cofounder of Apple." We appreciate his hard work, but our answer is correct. We stand by all of them, with the possible exception of one hyphen. (See notes.) Now we are pleased to announce the winners. The first place winner is Gary Tom of Tandem Computers, Cupertino, CA. Mr. Tom scored an impressive 43.5 answers right out of a possible 49. (For that half point, see the answer to 40 Horizontal.) Close behind in second place with 41 correct answers is K. Vivekanand Rau of Sunnyvale, CA. Our third place winner lives in Sterling, Virginia: Rusty Allen, who got 38.5 right. Contratulations to you all! DIAGONAL 1 First large-scale digital computer: ENIAC; Everybody got this right. 2 First commercial computer: UNIVAC;this, too. 3 Name of slab in 2001: TYCHO MAGNETIC ANOMALY-1; There was minor controversy. Should a hyphen or a space go before the '1' ? Our puzzle may be in error here. 6 Chip pioneer used to have Von in name: The electronics giant founded in the 1800s by inventor and scientist Von SEIMENS. 12 Backups go here: OFFSITE, of course. Slightly less than half of you got this right. 13 Invented Ethernet: Robert METCALFE invented it exactly 20 years ago. 16 Most efficient cables are made of this: GLASS. 18 Some cache memories do this to eliminate inconsistencies between main and cache memory: Our toughest question--NOBODY answered SNARF, which some ISA cache subsystems do by capturing data from the system bus while the bus master writes it to main memory. 19 Only building you see as you drive into IBM HQ in Armonk: GUARD BOOTH. 21 Changing height to convey data: Okay, we know the N.Y. Times doesn' t allow 2-letter words. We did, and were complimented by entrants on this tricky definition of amplitude modulation, or AM. 29 Only company besides IBM & Microsoft with source code for MS-DOS, OS/2 & Windows: A tough one. Only the first-place winner knew about CITRIX. 33 Planned scam: RUSE. 42 Middle of Gates' first compiler: To get this, you had to know two facts. The first compiler Bill Gates sold was BASIC, and the " S" in BASIC stands for SYMBOLIC. 43 Intel CEO' s real name: We thought this would be easy, but it turned out to be the question that separated the top of the heap from everyone else. Our top two winners got this right and no one else did. Andrew Grove first came to the U.S. with $20 in his pocket and his Hungarian name, Andras GROF. 45 A bit: BINARY DIGIT. HORIZONTAL 4 SJ street named for Apple cofounder: WOZ WAY, to recognize Mr. Wozniak' s philanthropy. 8 State with most UNIX users: Everyone got CA. 9 BITnet' s bit: Our most controversial answer. We got letters, e-mail, and phone calls insisting that the BIT in BITnet stands for " Because Its Time". Maybe, but some books say BECAUSE ITS THERE, so we stand by our answer. 10 Company that invented laser printer: Our research couldn' t find this name. Someone suggested we call legendary author and computing pioneer Donald Knuth. He knew. It was invented in 1960, and first written up in the Penrose Annual for 61-62, which was so amazed that it bound into each book a sample sheet from the British RANK XEROX. 15 Developed first desktop word processing, screens with windows, groupware; holds patent on mouse: Douglas ENGELBART 17 May have some letters: AN for alphanumeric. 20 Part of software which credits everyone who built it (2 words): GANG SCREEN. 23 Venture capitalist Perkins worked for this co.: HEWLETT- PACKARD. 25 Company that invented pixel phasing: An honorable mention to Bruce D. Lofland of Lenexa, Kansas, the only person who answered MEGATECH of San Diego. 26 Went from primary contractor to primaries: H. Ross PEROT, of course. 27 Made many minis in Maynard: DEC founder Ken OLSEN. 28 Not sawtooths: Smooth waves are SINES. 32 First computer with off-the-shelf client/server OS: TANDEM NONSTOP. 34 Designer of Colossus mainframe: FORBIN 38 Non-printing character that stops a function: CONTROL character. 39 Computing' s biggest dad and son: The WATSONS of IBM. 40 Im: This is the standard abbreviation for IMAGINARY PART OF. No one got it all, but we gave a half-point credit for any answer with the word IMAGINARY in it. 41 Now-big company started in dorm room instead of garage: DELL Computers. 44 Earthly attraction amount: 1G. 46 Transmit signals to satellites at will: ALOHA. VERTICAL 5 Another consortium: ACE. 7 Laser printer parts that fuse toner to paper: FIXING ROLLERS. Less than half got this. 11 Father of supercomputing: Seymour CRAY. 14 Co-developed first commercial computer: John MAUCHLEY 15 The other co-developer: J. Presper ECKERT. 22 MS-DOS warm boot command: A trick, but half of you got it right: THERE IS NONE. 24 First desktop publishing service bureau: Only our first- place winner correctly named TECHART of San Francisco. 30 Makes connections bigger than LANs: Wide- area nets from Ungermann-Bass, UB. 31 It threatened Enterprise: Only one-third of you watch enough Star Trek to know the evil computer NOMAD. 34 Guards one part of a net or program from another' s damage: FIREWALL. 35 Found first bug: Everybody except one person knew it was Grace HOPPER. He should be properly embarrassed. 36 Link devices sequentially: DAISYCHAIN. 37 Non-linear optical: NOL. 46 And no substance (2 words): ALL STYLE. ====== UNIX ====== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Student' s Guide To UNIX Harley Hahn, McGraw-Hill, 632 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Similar to Sobell' s Practical Guide to UNIX books, this one teaches a new user the basics about editing with vi, working with files, traversing directories and communicating through mail. Unlike Sobell' s books, this is also quite useful for experienced UNIX users. It covers filters, gets into the C-shell, shows how to use the Internet more effectively and lists Usenet Newsgroups. Useful for all UNIX users but is written for Berkeley Unix and focuses on the C-shell. --LS Order no. AS477070 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSIX FORTRAN 77: Language Interfaces, IEEE Standard 1003.9-1992 IEEE, 181 pp., $42.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1: Binding for System Application Program Interface (API). Documents standardized interfaces to the ISO/IEC 9945-1: 1990 system services through a FORTRAN 77 language interface. --TR Order no. BD494190 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSIX Ada Language Interfaces: IEEE Standard 1003.5-1992 IEEE, 305 pp., $62.50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1: Binding for System Application Program Interface (API). This standard provides an Ada binding for the interfaces specified in ISO/IEC 9945.1:1990 (IEEE Std 1003.1- 1990, " POSIX.1 {2}". --TR Order no. BD494185 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIX Power Tools Peek/O' Reilly/Loukides, O' Reilly/Bantam, 1,162 pp., $59.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This book plus CD-ROM is like a 1960s movie spectacular: So big it took two publishers and three top authors three years to produce! More pages than Ben-Hur! Huge book of little-known but impor-tant tips and techniques for power users, programmers and administrators. Covers everything UNIX except communications. An astonishing amount of time- saving and can' t-live-without-it info you won' t find elsewhere. CD has 169 public domain programs. --VE Order no. AS497494 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Taking the Next Step: Buyer' s Guide to NeXTSTEP Computing Seth Ross/Daniel Kehoe, Albion, 164 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A unique decision-maker' s guide to this trendy operating environment. The first 87 pages are primarily overview. The rest is an annotated survey of products, companies, publications, etc. --DD Order no. BD535960 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NeXTSTEP Programming: Concepts and Applications Alex Duong Nghiem, Prentice Hall, 604 pp., $36.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clear intro to programming the Intel version of NeXTSTEP by building 3 simple applications. Assumes you know C and UNIX basics. --VE Order no. BD510820 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 SCO Directory: The Guide to Hardware, Software and Services for the SCO Environment Santa Cruz Operation, 1,728 pp., $49.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-volume set describes more than 4,800 products and services for SCO Unix and Xenix and tells where you can go for more information. Each volume is also available separately. -- VE Order no. BD524240 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 SCO Directory Volume 1: Hardware, Enabling Technologies, Services Santa Cruz Operation, 650 pp., $19.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearly 2,000 products, services and publications for/about SCO UNIX and XENIX, cross-referenced by type, provider name, product name and key words. --VE Order no. BD524256 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 SCO Directory Volume 2: Horizontal Business Applications Santa Cruz Operation, 528 pp., $19.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,350 software packages for general categories (graphics, project mgmt., spreadsheets, word processing, mail, publishing, databases, multimedia), accounting, financial mgmt., engineering and scientific applications, all cross- indexed. --VE Order no. BD524261 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 SCO Directory Volume 3: Industry-Specific Business Applications Santa Cruz Operation, 552 pp., $19.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearly 1,500 SCO UNIX and XENIX software packages grouped into 31 industry categories and cross-referenced. Use with Volume 2, because additional industry-specific packages tucked under V.2 headings. --VE Order no. BD524277 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCO UNIX System V System Administrator' s Guide Santa Cruz Operation, Prentice Hall, 826 pp., $36.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A repackaged System Administrator' s Guide (with minimal changes) and Hardware Configuration Guide (updated), from the official SCO UNIX documentation. If you need an extra copy of the official docs, then by all means pick this up. Covers SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 4. --KO Order no. BD502384 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mastering Solaris 2.1 Brent Heslop/David Angell, Sybex, 899 pp, $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This hands-on guide explains SunSoft' s operating system, including Solaris 2 for x86. Written in an easy-to-follow style, it discusses how to use DeskSet tools as well as SunOS and Korn Shell commands. Packed with customization tips, it also includes a reference to all commands, with examples. --SW Order no. BD455518 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ToolTalk Service: Inter-Operability Solution SunSoft, SunSoft Press, 350 pp., $30.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ToolTalk is an inter-application message service from SunSoft, selected as part of the COSI standard. This volume covers how the ToolTalk service works and the requirements for set-up and maintainence. Also covers how to modify your application to send messages addressed to processes or ToolTalk objects. --TP Order no. BD503215 More new titles from SunSoft: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris Porting Guide Goodman/Goyal/Massoudi, SunSoft Press, 790 pp., $49.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD491912 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris OpenWindows Deskset Reference SunSoft, SunSoft Press, 343 pp., $32.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD491960 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris OpenWindows User' s Guide SunSoft, SunSoft Press, 311 pp., 32.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD491980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris Desktop Integration Guide SunSoft, SunSoft Press, 203 pp., $42.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD491975 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Programming Under Mach Joseph Boykin et al., Addison-Wesley, 490 pp., $42.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The first substantial book on the Mach operating system. This technical reference includes a complete introduction and step-by-step approaches (with examples) for a thorough coverage of Mach programming concepts. Especially stressed in this book are the implementation of multithreaded programs, IPC, Mach virtual memory including details of Eternal Memory Management and Mach' s C threads and P threads. --TimB Order no. BD494101 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIX System V Network Programming Stephen A. Rago, Addison-Wesley, 722 pp., $44.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A practical reference for network programming in UNIX System V Release 4. Rago concentrates on illustrative examples rather than theory. Discusses facilities built on top of the STREAMS subsystem such as Transport Layer Interface (TLI) library, networking protocols, Service Access Facility (SAF), BSD socket interface, Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI), STREAMS module and multiplexing. The last chapter is a project design of a SLIP (Serial Line IP) package for UNIX SVR4, both the user-level and kernel-level components. -- TN Order no. BD507230 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Networking Applications on UNIX System V Release 4 Michael Padovano, Prentice Hall, 544 pp., $44.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SVR4 has many networking tools. Through shell script and C program examples, Padovano shows how to tie them together. He sees security problems as the greatest threat to networks, and shows how to minimize the risk. The author worked at USL on the development of SVR4' s new network features. --WM Order no. BD523074 ========================== Miscellaneous and Interesting ========================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hard Drive (a techno-thriller) David Pogue, Diamond Books, 288 pp., $4.99 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The evil virus started as part of an industrial espionage plan. Little did people know... within weeks, the virus would spread to thousands of computers all over the world; disabling not only computers in the home and industries, but also wiping out military computers and distorting hospital data. The scariest part is that it could be happening right now. Great summertime reading! --CC Order no. BD530370 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Green PC: Making Choices That Make A Difference Steven Anzovin, Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 248 pp., $9.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From suggestions on how to extend the life of your PC to obtaining educational software and recycled disks, this book provides insight on the impact personal computers are having upon the environment (" 115 million personal computers in the world today"), and offers a variety of methods to help consumers minimize the effects of PC use on the environment. Basic focus is on " choices that make a difference." Subjects covered include recycling foam packaging to health concerns in the workplace. Lists many Green-PC and general environmental resources. --MMc Order no. BD512130 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OS/2 2.1 Unleashed David Moskowitz et al., Sams, 1,134 pp., $34.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 authors, including some from inside IBM, provide lots of undocumented shortcuts and features. Mostly for users and administrators, with good REXX tips and basic C++ info for programmers. Disk includes TE/2 communications program, an alternative shell, graphics conversion utility, 5 more. --DR Order no. BD495849 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars and Enslaved Your Children David Sheff, Random House, 445 pp., $24.50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fruit of two years' research by a journalist, and more of an exposŽ than a company profile. It relays the personalities, sociology and the unflattering side of Nintendo. Well written and difficult to put down. --WG Order no. BD523666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Children' s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer Seymour Papert, Basic Books, 241 pp., $22.50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Author of Mindstorms and creator of the LOGO language, Papert describes the potential of computers for learning (not just for drill and practice) and for transforming the nature of school. Drawing from his own studies with children, he shows how to enhance exploration and collaborative projects while encouraging diversity and new ways of knowing (e.g., experiencing math). Those interested in the relationship between children and computers will value this important work. Papert holds the Lego Chair for Learning Research at MIT. Recommended! --TR Order no. BD478561 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kid Pix Around the World Barbara Chan, Addison-Wesley, 96 pp., $12.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduces children to the arts and traditions of 20 cultures with short stories and explanations. Gives Kid Pix painting and drawing projects for each. Book works with Mac, DOS and Windows. --MMc Order no. BD507115 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Guided Wave Optics Alan Rolf Mickelson, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 254 pp., $59.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on a postgrad course, this book emphasizes the basic, unifying concepts of this rapidly growing field. Mickelson concentrates on tying concepts together to give a good representation of " the big picture," covering slab wave guides, Fermi levels, optical fibers, and integrated optics. --TO Order no. BD479151 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Study and Research Guide to Computer Science: Profiles of Universities in the USA Tolle/Yasner/Pieper, Springer-Verlag, 175 pp., $19.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A handy reference guide with detailed profiles of the 40 best U.S. universities for computer science. Includes a listing of faculty in different research areas and departments. An overview of computer equipment used within each department and institution is provided for students and researchers. --BL Order no. BD521742 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lindenmayer Systems Grzegorz Rozenberg/Arto Salomaa, Springer-Verlag, 514 pp., $98.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Already L systems are used to model biological development of organisms, as well as computer graphics and the combinatorics of words. This compilation of research papers contains an introductory article co-authored by Lindenmayer himself. --TO Order no. BD499225 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Design to Reduce Technical Risk AT&T, McGraw-Hill, 752 pp., $60.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By Bell Labs with the U.S. Navy. Gives detailed recommendations for product development of complex hardware and software with the goal of reducing the risk of failure, based on the Packard Commission findings on how some companies develop products more successfully than others. Provides templates to meet the new DoD 5000 series for technical risk assessment. --VE Order no. BD513176 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Designer Photoshop: From Monitor to Printed Page Rob Day, Random House, 250 pp., $30.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers a wide variety of PhotoShop topics, including integrating PhotoShop with other programs like Adobe Illustrator. By going through full design examples, it teaches electronic printing concepts like halftoning, color separations and output. --DH Order no. BD503042 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanotechnology Playhouse Christopher Lampton, Waite Group, 131 pp., $23.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fun intro/demo to nanotechnology. Disk explores size of scale, various nanoma-chines and their components. Forward by K. Eric Drexler. --TR Order no. BD517605 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal Care For Your Software. 10th Anniversary Edition Daniel Remer/Robert Dunaway, RDS Publishing, 352 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Two attorneys who specialize in intellectual property protection, contracts and corporate law in the computer industry discuss legalities of object code, source code, innovative programming methods, software projects still in development, nondisclosure, contracts law and patent protection. Also covers royalities, obligations to correct bugs, contracts on how a product is to be marketed, disclaimers and warranties. Comes with samples contracts (forms can be used as is, or modified). Includes disk. --TR Order no. BD520712 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- " I write code" T-shirt ComputerWear, $14.95 Black shirt with white type. Extra Large only. Order no. AS508077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Design' s Impact On Logistics AT&T, McGraw-Hill, 228 pp., $42.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by AT&T in conjunction with the Department of the Navy, this book explains the Logistics Support Analysis (LSA) process used to design logistics systems. It starts with overviews and progresses to details. Lists the fields you need in records and the structures of fields, but avoids specific algorithms. Provides guidelines to comply with the new DoD 5000 series for defense acquisition. --VE Order no. BD513181 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic Bart Kosko, Hyperion/Little, Brown, 318 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clear explanations of fuzzy logic, uncertainty, paradoxes, fuzzy systems and sets. Provides historical development of fuzzy thinking, and brings in stories from Kosko' s own development. Reviews fuzzy applications/products currently in use. An accessible introduction to fuzzy thinking, strong in conveying the logic side of things. --TR Order no. BD514824 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology--and How It Is Changing Our World McNeill/Freiberger, Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $22.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview of fuzzy concepts and history. Goes into more detail on the industry Ñ products and applications of the technology, and key entrepreneurs in U.S., Japan, and globally. --TR Order no. BD498620 ============================ Networking and Communications ============================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Satellite Systems: Principles & Technologies Bruno Pattan, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 406 pp., $69.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers orbits, launch mechanics, international launch vehicles and facilities, propulsion, controls, on-board power, telemetry, frequency management, Earth stations, etc. Useful if you work with communications or space flight, and great fun if you are interested in satellites or space travel. --VE Order no. AS516423 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Networking Standards: A Guide to OSI, ISDN, LAN, and MAN Standards, 2nd ed. William Stallings, Addison-Wesley, 646 pp., $46.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thoroughly covers computer communications standards that fall within the field of OSI. Clearly written, by an authority in this field. --TimB Order no. BD473343 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Using C-KERMIT Da Cruz/Gianone, Prentice Hall, 514 pp., $35.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The long-awaited complete quide to this feature-packed communications program. It gives you everything you need to know about using Kermit. Explicitly covers all major platforms and how to work with them. Complete examples and demonstrations of all Kermit abilities. Co-authored by Frank Da Cruz, the Kermit creator himself. Do not confuse with the classic Kermit Protocol book. --SW Order no. BD510793 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Systems and IBM: Integration and Convergence Pamela Gray, McGraw-Hill, 272 pp., $40.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Examines IBM' s position and strategy in the open systems movement. Reviews the emergence of opens systems in relation to UNIX, AIX, SAA, networking and distributed computing, open applications and integrated information systems. A comprehensive analysis. --RD Order no. BD51327 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Telecommunications Network Design Algorithms Aaron Kershenbaum, McGraw-Hill, 368 pp., $57.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers network design (voice and data), analytic techniques for verification and feasibility, and design comparisons. --AD Order no. BD477196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Complete NetWare Construction Kit: A Professional Blueprint for Designing, Installing and Managing LANs David Clarke IV, Wiley, 483 pp., $34.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phase I covers data communication, LAN, Novell and NetWare fundamentals. " Building NetWare LANs: Analysis and Design" comprises phase II. Hardware and NetWare version 2.2, 3.11 and 4.0 installation is discussed in phase III. Aspects of NetWare management such as directory structure, system configuration, users and groups, maintenance/troubleshooting conclude the book. --RD Order no. AS493726 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Live Wired: A Guide to Networking Macs James K. Anders, Hayden, 427 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clear, informative exposition of networking, hardware/software network tools, concepts and protocols using NetPICT diagrams developed by the author. This nontechnical volume for the networking neophyte covers networking fundamentals, Macintosh networking, multivendor networks and network design. Ethernet, Token ring, bridges and routers, protocol levels, gateways, LANs, WANs and Appletalk are clearly diagrammed and explained with NetPICT and examples, as are Mac/UNIX/DOS interconnections. Includes disk with NetPICT diagramming symbols plus a library of product info. --RD Order no. AS508145 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Passport: NorthWestNet' s Guide to Our World Online Jonathan Kochmer/NorthWestNet, NorthWestNet, 516 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This great guide for Internet users covers the same topics (but more comprehensively) as Krol' s Whole Internet plus many more, all in a well-organized, easy-to-follow style. Includes step-by-step sample sessions with screen shots, walking you through anonymous ftp and other procedures. Includes many subjects like the Internet in K-12 education and the Internet and supercomputing. Appendix tells how to set up your own campuswide info system. --VE Order no. BD535630 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protocol Reference Guides Mark Miller, DigiNet, $5.95 each ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Helpful 81/2 x 11-inch, double-sided laminated guides designed for internetwork troubleshooting. Architectures and Network Management Data Communication EIA-232-D interface, null modem wiring, 9 to 25 pin adapter, ASCII chart, modem commands. Order no. BD538714 TCP/IP IP and TCP header and IP address formats; ARP/RARP, ICMP and UDP headers; TENET, SMTP & FTP commands; RFC index. Order no. BD538720 GOSIP Version 2 architecture, protocols and standards. Order no. AS538735 SNMP Get, GetNext, Set, Response and Trap formats; MIB-II object tree. Order no. BD538819 SNMP Version 2 New PDU formats, transport mappings, SMI/MIB enhancements. Order no. BD538830 RMON MIBS Ethernet and token ring Remote Monitoring Management Information Base object trees. Order no. BD538824 LANs LAN Cabling - Order no. BD538646 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 - Order no. BD542998 FDDI - Order no. BD538651 Token Ring/IEEE 802.5 - Order no. BD538667 AppleTalk - Order no. BD538672 Banyan VINES - Order no. BD538688 DECnet Phase IV - Order no. BD538693 Novell NetWare - Order no. BD538709 WANs ATM - Order no. BD538740 Frame Relay - Order no. BD538756 SONET - Order no. BD538777 SMDS - Order no. BD538782 ISDN - Order no. BD538761 X.25 - Order no. BD538798 Physical Layer - Order no. BD538803 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network-Management Standards William Stallings, Addison-Wesley, 625 pp., $45.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides an overview of general network-management concepts and technology, followed by an in-depth look at the two dominant families of network-management standards: SNMP ('basic' SNMP, secure SNMP, and SNMP version 2) for TCP/IP-based networks, and CMIP (including CMIS) for OSI systems management. --KO Order no. BD507199 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Network Design Darren L. Spohn, McGraw-Hill, 778 pp., $59.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Explains the options involved in setting up a data network, from a site-wide connection to a nationwide connection. Details network protocols such as ATM, SONET, X.25 packet switching and more, as well as connecting the different technologies. Covers all phases of building a network, from planning and acquisition, to operation and maintenance. --DH Order no. BD513286 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Network Programming under VMS/DECNet Phases IV and V Edward Toupin, QED, 264 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This " how-to" book gives VAX C programmers a basic understanding of low-level DECNet programming on VAX/VMS. Gives the basics on VMS system service calls. Shows how to use Ethernet frames. Covers TIPC and TIPC emulation, and peer-to-peer considerations. Sample code includes a client/server implementation. The prose is sometimes dense, but it presents useful information that you could previously find only by digging and trial-and-error. --VE Order no. AS514143 ========== INTEROP ========== Computer Literacy will be the official bookstore at INTEROP 93 August, in San Francisco' s Moscone Center. Our show bookstore will be open Aug. 22-27. Whether you are a networking manager, Fortune 500 executive, applications developer or computer reseller, INTEROP is a great place to learn about networking and distributed computing. If your application runs on a network or makes a network run, you should attend INTEROP. The 10th interoperability conference will offer more than 110 conference sessions, two-day tutorials and one-day workshops, and 400 leading network computing and open systems exhibitors. For more information, call: 1-800-INTEROP ==================== Software Engineering ==================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploiting Chaos: Cashing in on the Realities of Software Development Dave Olson, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 239 pp., $35.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Beyond object-oriented programming lies the application of chaos theory to s/w development. The author demonstrates how you can use chaos features such as self-similarity and unpredictability to write better software. Covers OOP, CASE tools and other techniques to show how to apply chaotic process manipulation in development environments. --AD Order no. BD478886 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Metrics: A Practitioner' s Guide to Improved Software Development K.H. Moller/D.J. Paulish, IEEE, 257 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Describes 'best practices' in software metrics and quality techniques and shows you how companies in Europe and North America are implementing successful software metrics programs. --DR Order no. BD501506 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Handbook of Logic in Computer Science From Oxford University Press, this important, comprehensive six-volume set elucidates the logical constructs of computer science, one of the foundational disciplines of computing. Based on the first two volumes, the series will be an excellent, rigorously definitive masterpiece. Volumes 3 to 6 are forthcoming, and will cover semantic structures, semantic modelling, specification and verification, and logical methods. --RD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Handbook of Logic in Computer Science. Volume 1, Background: Mathematical Structures Abramsky/Gabbay/Maibaum, eds., Oxford University Press, 827 pp., $125.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers background math extensively used in computer science. Includes valuation systems and consequence relations, recursion theory, universal algebra, basic category theory, topology, model theory and computer science. Chapters are monographic in scope. Mathematical sophistication is assumed. Order no. BD484004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Handbook of Logic in Computer Science. Volume 2, Background: Computational Structures Abramsky/Gabbay/Maibaum, eds., Oxford University Press, 571 pp., $98.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers background logic and mathematics. Topics include term rewriting systems, Lambda calculi with types, elements of algorithmic proof, designing a theorem prover, modal and temporal logics. Order no. BD484010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Client/Server Computing Dawna Dewire, McGraw-Hill, 339 pp., $40.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Certainly the most complete client/server book, this covers it all, from theory to hands-on use, including most aspects of planning, implementation and maintenance. What sets this book apart is that it names names and pulls no punches, comparing all major hardware and software products you might use in a c/s environmentÑso many that it takes 10 pages just to list the trademarks! You' ll find a lot of answers in this valuable handbook. --VE Order no. BD476852 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Reengineering Robert S. Arnold, editor, IEEE Computer Society, 675 pp., $75.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzes process and software reengineering principles beginning with context and definition, through strategies and reengineering economies, technology, code reuse and reverse engineering to design and object recovery. Concluding papers analyze knowledge-based program reengineering. Includes case studies, references and an annotated bibliography. --RD Order no. BD504533 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside ADW and IEF: The Promise and Reality of CASE John Stone, McGraw-Hill, 276 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The only independent book covering KnowledgeWare' s ADW or Texas Instruments' IEF tools. Not a nuts & bolts manual, but strategic info for MIS pros using those products or any CASE tools. Uses true horror stories as warnings. The only book that tells what sales pitches software sales reps give you and what to watch out for. --VE Order no. BD449567 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality Software Management, Volume 2: First-Order Measurement Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House, 346 pp., $42.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To produce quality software, you must measure to see how well you do and what to change. But what do you measure? Weinberg tells how to select what to measure, how to measure your selections (including such seeming intangibles as emotional significance), and how to apply your measurements. He includes actual examples, and some of the clearest explanation ever on how to run a software quality program. A worthy follow-up to the first volume. --VE Order no. BD506085 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Writing Solid Code Steve Maguire, Microsoft Press, 256 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Explains Microsoft' s techniques for developing bug-free C programs and provides practical approaches to prevent and automatically detect errors. Focuses on analysis and exposition of not-so-obvious coding errors in the sample code provided. Gives you answers to the questions 'How could I have automatically detected this bug?' and 'How could I have prevented this bug?' Covers programmer attitudes as well as debugging methods. A particularly revealing chapter, " Treacheries of the Trade", should be required reading for all C maniacs. The author has been a professional programmer for seventeen years and draws heavily (and candidly) on actual coding problems and practices at Microsoft. --RD Order no. AS510369 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Objects In Action: Commercial Applications of Object-Oriented Technologies Paul Harmon/David A. Taylor, Addison-Wesley, 232 pp., $25.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Case studies of the 19 object-oriented projects (in manufacturing, software development, sales/service, government, admin and medicine) that won the Object World/OMG/Computerworld contest for the best and most cost-saving uses of OO technology. A clearly-written, stimulating exposition of the sometimes surprising benefits of OOT. --VE Order no. BD507225 The ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Object Game Peter Coad, Object International, $45.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fastest and most fun way to learn " object think", this game for 1 to 4 people includes playing boards, game pieces, whistles, a ball and a humorous 67-minute videocassette, starring Coad (co-author of the best-selling book/disk Object- Oriented Programming). Painlessly teaches a whole group of people about objects and classes in less than 90 minutes! --VE Order no. BD542715 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Stephen McConnell, Microsoft Press, 857 pp., $35.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presents effective software development practices for problem definition, requirements analysis, implementation planning, design, construction and integration, testing, maintenance and enhancements. Discusses data control, quality improvement and software craftsmanship. Source code is in C and Pascal, replete with " key point" notes and more importantly with " coding horror" analyses. Excellent; highly recommended as a text for advanced C courses and for programmers involved with structuring quality software projects. --RD Order no. BD474394 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Concurrent Programming Alan Burns/Geoff Davies, Addison-Wesley, 377 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A good introduction to concurrency presented via a teaching language, Pascal-FC (Functionally Concurrent), which suppports the major primitives in the book and examples. Pascal-FC is portable and a compiler is available. Discusses process representation/interaction, synchronous message passing, remote invocation, semaphores, conditional critical regions and monitors. Describes a unified model and concurrency architectures. The authors favor an intuitive rather than a rigorous mathematical approach to concurrency. --RD Order no. BD494735 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Object Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access (CUA) Guidelines IBM, Que, 708 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the official guide to CUA design and implementation under IBM' s SAA standards, used by both Windows and OS/2. Part 1, the CUA design guide, is for software and interface designers. It presents models, goals and key components of a user interface. Part 2, the CUA reference for application programmers, is an overview and CUA component descriptions. Extremely useful appendices include " Applying CUA Concepts to Touch Input and Multimedia User Interfaces", " CUA and National Language Support" and translations of terms into 16 languages. --MM Order no. AS522479 Companion book and disk: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Object-Oriented Programming Peter Coad/Jill Nicola, Yourdon Press, 582 pp., $45.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD491514 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Compiling Parallel Loops for High Performance Computers: Partitioning, Data Assignment and Remapping David Hudak/Santosh Abraham, Kluwer, 159 pp., $65.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elegantly presents compile time techniques as a step to developing software to support efficient parallel programs. CPR algorithims and ADP techniques are also introduced. -- GC Order no. BD498510 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Application Programming in CTOS William Limkemann, Prentice Hall, 276 pp., $32.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The only book on programming Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS) apps. Uses C and Pascal code, emphasizing user interface, file system, printing, multiple processes and parameter passing. The author has ten years of CTOS programming experience. --RD Order no. BD498373 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The World of Standards: An Open Systems Reference Guide, 2nd edition 88open Consortium, 251 pp., $12.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A wonderful, and inexpensive, compendium of thumbnail overviews of all the different standards and standards-making bodies. Best of all, it gives contact information for getting your hands on the standards! --DD Order no. BD538630 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yourdon Systems Method: Model-Driven Systems Development Yourdon, Inc., Prentice Hall, 682 pp., $48.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Not a text or a " how-to" guide, but a reference book for serious developers of large structured systems. Covers the Yourdon Method in more detail than any other book, especially Yourdon' s approach to modeling, specifications, defining relationships and breaking complex problems into smaller, do- able chunks. Includes entity life-cycles and abstract data methods with YSM--which, with other additions, let you keep control with development methods that are more flexible--or, as the book puts it, " more relaxed". --VE Order no. BD523095 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Engineering Productivity Handbook Jessica Keyes, editor, McGraw-Hill, 651 pp., $54.50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This ambitious book/disk' s goal is to be the definitive work on software productivity. In a way, it succeeds; other books explore topics in more depth, but no one volume covers as many important subjects as this. The first 26 chapters (by Keyes and 36 experts such as Ed Yourdon, Roger Pressman and Watts Humphrey) are a mix of original articles and reprints. The remaining 43 chapters give abstracts of important techniques and methodologies (including corporate processes of AT&T, HP, DEC and Motorola), plus IEEE standards and Baldridge Award requirements. Disk contains forms, worksheets and guidelines. --VE Order no. BD477149 ========================= Multimedia and Virtual Reality ========================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Nonlinear Editing: New Approaches to Editing Film and Video Thomas A. Ohanian, Focal Press, 348 pp., $49.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonlinear editing--the editing of film or sound regardless of the sequence in which it was created--is greatly enhanced by digital processing. This book addresses both on- and off-line editing, and hardware considerations for videotape, laser disc and digitally-based systems. Also includes basic editing techniques, storage device considerations and a section about " The Human Side of the Nonlinear Editing Experience". There are discussions of JPEG, MPEG and hardware-aided data compression. --MMc Order no. BD517191 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adventures in Virtual Reality Tom Hayward, Que, 258 pp., $31.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Takes you step-by-step through VR to help you gain perspective on the subject. This book is wonderful for brushing up, as well as for the first timer to VR. You can have fun playing the fast-paced 3-D flight simulator that flies over the Grand Canyon. The disk has 3-D objects you can explore and manipulate, games to play, and things to learn. --MM Order no. AS522490 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimedia Computing: Case Studies from MIT Project Athena Matthew Hodges/Russell Sasnett, Addison-Wesley, 324 pp., $32.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The heart of this book is a close look at ten actual multimedia applications built with the Athena Muse authoring language (co-designed by Hodges). There is also a 5-chapter overview of multimedia, especially in business and education. Concludes with 10 chapters covering technical issues, and how you can apply Athena Muse to them. Includes a coupon for a free videocassette. --VE Order no. BD473406 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video Ralf Herrtwich, ed., Springer-Verlag, 403 pp., $59.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 papers from the 22nd International Workshop on the title topic. Addresses performance degradation, real-time support, synchronization, communications, FDDI, ATM, client/server needs, forward error correction and other issues for IBM PC, RS/6000, OS/2, AIX, UNIX, Sun, Ethernet, X Windows and special-purpose multimedia systems. --VE Order no. BD490919 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Understanding Hypermedia: From Multimedia To Virtual Reality Bob Cotton/Richard Oliver, Phaidon, 159 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers new media technology and applications: CD-ROM, HDTV, CDI, CDTV, electronic publishing, dynabooks, games, museum uses, POI (Point of Information), POS, training/education, financial data display and analysis, etc. Discussion on issues of data complexity and developing new metaphors. A far-reaching overview of the new media mix, appropriately stuffed with color photos and screen shots. -- MMc/TR Order no. BD515566 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Simulations: 15 Tales of Virtual Reality Karie Jacobson, ed., Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group, 275 pp., $9.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the 50s to the 90s, this provocative book gathers some of the best VR fiction--a genre evolving along with our actual VR technology. Some stories are new/unpublished. Authors include Ray Bradbury (" The Veldt"), John Varley, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Kandel, Michael Swanwick and William Gibson, M.Shayne Bell, Douglas Adams, Marc Laidlaw, George Zebrowski, Vonda McIntyre, Philip K. Dick, Daniel Pearlman, Pat Cadigan, J.G. Ballard, and Gerald Page. 6-page bibliography lists VR lit from as far back as 1909. --TR Order no. AS517338 ======================= Microsoft Windows ======================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows NT: The Complete Reference Allen Wyatt, McGraw-Hill, 590 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Guide for users and system administrators walks you gently through NT basics, with extra details on things that are new, such as the complex security system. Points out differences between NT and 3.1. Includes a complete command dictionary (with explanatory notes on each command), installation tips with instructions on switching from DOS, UNIX and OS/2, and an appendix on the Configuration Registry, the tricky but time-saving replacement for config.sys files. --VE Order no. AS493030 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lafore' s Windows Programming Made Easy Robert Lafore, Waite Group Press, 610 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Skillfully-organized book and disk teaches Windows programming in C, one clear step at a time. By the end of the book, you handle graphics, memory management, print programs and debugging, and can build fully-functional applications. Disk has templates and sample programs. Requires Turbo C++ for windows or Borland C++ for Windows. --VE Order no. BD517689 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 3.1 Bible Fred Davis, Peachpit Press, 1,128 pp., $28.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The most complete Windows user' s guide; a perfect book for all skill levels. Tips,tricks, shortcuts, undocumented features, and add-on products are all covered. Includes a coupon for a free " Windows Game Book" and a disk packed with usefull utilities. --TomB Order no. BD486132 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows NT Application Programming William Murray III/Chris Pappas, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 680 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A basic introduction to programming for Windows NT. Discusses Windows NT concepts and terminology, use of resources (icons, menus, fonts, etc), and developing applications via the use of increasingly complex examples. Disk includes source code . --KO Order no. BD493250 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Developing Online Help For Windows Boggan/Farkas/Welinske, Sams, 462 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comprehensive book about creating online help with the Windows 3.1 Help compiler. Begins with the design of a windows help system. Shows how to create the topic and help files. Concludes with the methodology, tools and useful techniques. Figures show window layouts from the user' s standpoint. Command-structured, minimal code is used. Disk has Word .DOT templates with macros for creating Help files, sample files, plus bitmaps of buttons and dingbats. --RD Order no. AS508240 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Foundation Class Primer Jim Conger, Waite Group, 834 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The definitive guide to the MFC library shows how to use these functions to create Windows programs. Detailed coverage of writing DLLs and application controls (buttons, boxes, menus, windows). Basic knowledge of C or C++ programming in Windows is recommended. The book differentiates between Windows 3.x and Windows NT, and shows how MFC makes it easier to port programs. --SK Order no. AS517673 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows Custom Controls William Smith/Robert Ward, R&D, 530 pp., $40.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The only book on Windows custom controls helps you create your own, whether you use the finished, ready-to-use custom controls provided or code new ones. This book is for experienced Windows programmers who have built lots of standard controls and dialog boxes. The code for all controls is included, plus a support library that can significantly reduce the code you need to make a new control. --SK Order no. BD497783 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows Internals: The Implementation of the Windows Operating System Matt Pietrek, Addison-Wesley, 525 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A detailed look at the inner workings of Windows. Explains (via C pseudo-code derived from disassembled Windows programs) start up and shutdown, processes (creation and termination), memory management, windowing and messaging systems, applications scheduling, the GDI (Graphics Device Driver Interface), and dynamic linking. --KO Order no. BD507068 ================= Mainframes/Minis ================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MVS I/O Subsystems: Configuration Management and Perform Analysis Gilbert Houtekamer/Pat Artis, McGraw-Hill, 419 pp., $50.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Focuses on software and hardware used to support I/O in the MVS environment, specifically low-level request queueing and processing. Emphasizes measurement, modeling and analysis of I/O systems. Subsystem hardware and software services, cached control units, expanded storage exploitation, characterization of I/O subsystem workloads, GTF trace and RMF/SMF analysis are discussed as are modeling and performance prediction techniques. Intended for MVS system administrators and analysts. --RD Order no. BD415208 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAA: Common Programming Interface Martin/Chapman/Leben, Prentice Hall, 397 pp., $50.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fourth in a series of books by Martin on IBM' s SAA. Gives an overview of third and fourth generation languages used tocreate SAA-compliant applications including the CPI Application Generator Interface and Procedure Language Interface (REXX). Describes data access interfaces (Database, Query, Resource Recovery and Repository). Covers networking, SNA, LU6.2 and CUA, CCS and CPI implementations. Clearly explains SAA CPI with examples and diagrams. --RD Order no. BD498368 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ASO: Automated Systems Operation for MVS Trevor Eddolls, McGraw-Hill, 241 pp., $44.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intended for MIS or operations managers. Discusses automating key MVS data center activities: scheduling, print distribution, system monitoring, batch operation, CICS, help desk, network and remote operations. Also discusses management, security, benefits and the future of automated system operations. The author is a consultant and editor of the VM, VSE and VSAM Updates publications. --RD Order no. AS476962 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VM/CMS: A Survival Guide James Potter, Bridge Learning, 592 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial introduction to the use of IBM' s VM/CMS for COBOL programmers. Chapters present keystroke-by- keystroke tutorials on VM/CMS, XEDIT, REXX, EXEC2, VSAM, KERMIT, CMS files and VM customization. Gives the steps needed to run a COBOL program and use COPY libraries, but doesn' t explain compiling and linking. Appendices include REXX/EXEC2 error codes. Disks contain exec files and tutorials. A good lab manual and tutorial for users and students who interface with VM/VMS at the beginning level. -- RD Order no. BD519864 ===================== Programming Languages ===================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ROMable Microsoft C Handbook Jim Kelsey/Byyrne Mayer, Ironman, 124 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A guru' s guide for firmware developers--all the ins and outs of using Microsoft C for ROM-based applications, with only rare need for more exotic expensive software tools. An AT system BIOS and several expansion ROM applications are used as illustrations of the process. --DD Order no. BD535960 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Visual C++ Run-Time Library Reference Microsoft, Microsoft Press, 688 pp., $35.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduces the library and its variables, constants and types. Describes all library routines included with Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. To ease the task of porting programs between operating systems and compilers, the description of each run-time library routine includes a compatibility section, covering ANSI, UNIX, DOS, QuickWin, and Windows. --SK Order no. BD510437 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C++: An Introduction for Experienced C Programmers Rex Jaeschke, CBM Books, 236 pp., $30.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clearly-written, excellent book, if you need to get started with C++ quickly. It deals with all the essentials, avoiding more advanced features to help make an easy transition to C++. Contains problems with solutions. --SK Order no. BD501396 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VAX C Programmer' s Guide Jay Shah, McGraw-Hill, 509 pp., $40.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Guide, reference and tutorial for C in the VAX/VMS environment. Begins with an overview of VAX/VMS. Continues with program structure, debugging, VAX procedures and call standards, RMS files, run-time library, DECnet and C, VAXset management tools and VMS products and features. The integration and use of C with VAX/VMS is clearly explained, documented and very good. VAX C and ANSI C variances exist but are not specifically highlighted. --RD Order no. BD449730 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C++ Strategies And Tactics Robert B. Murray, Addison-Wesley, 282 pp., $30.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advantageous programming strategies help C++ programmers build programs which are elegant, fast and easy to understand and maintain. Covers many C++ idioms, techniques, and pitfalls which you may encounter when coding. --TN Order no. BD473317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PC Magazine Visual Basic Programmers' Guide to the Windows API Daniel Appleman, Ziff-Davis, 1,020 pp., $34.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Most everything written on Windows APIs is for C programmers. Much of it is useless for Visual Basic developers. This book starts with a Windows programming overview from a VB point of view, then moves to references on 700+ functions tested for use with VB, arranged by subject with plenty of explanations. A section on the VB-to-Windows interface gives you enough info so you can take a C language specification for any DLL and write a VB interface for it. Disk gives you programming utilities and source code. --VE Order no. AS496947 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual C++ Programming Steve Holzner, Brady 508 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Visual C++ explains C++ from elementary to advanced levels with overviews of classes, objects, function overloading, memory use, inheritance, defaults, I/O class libraries and virtual functions. Windows topics are discussed. Includes chapters on debugging and the Multi Document Interface. Uses Microsoft Foundation Class library (MFC). Familiarity with C is assumed. Very good clear explanations, figures and sample code constructs. --RD Order no. BD508077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No Bugs! Delivering Error-Free Code in C and C++ David Thielen, Addison-Wesley, 206 pp., $ 24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers methodology and procedures used to trap and eliminate bugs from programs written in C and C++, based on a comprehensive view of the overall application and the need for extensive product testing and error trapping during development. Extensive C code examples demonstrate the use of debug macros. Demonstrates C statements such as assert, printf, enter and exit via 'tricks' . One of the few books specifically devoted to debugging C applications based on actual practice, not on vague theoretical debugging hints. --RD Order no. BD473799 ===================== Electrical Engineering ===================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C/OS: The Real-Time Kernel Jean Labrosse, Prentice Hall, 266 pp., $30.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The author, the designer of uC/OS, provides a detailed design implementation of his " portable, ROMable, preemptive, real time, multitasking kernel" for embedded microprocessors. Order no. BD497867 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Verilog HDL Reference Card Sutherland HDL Consulting, 20 pp., $7.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From a company that conducts Verilog training, this reference is as complete as the other, lists a few more reserved keywords--and costs half as much. --GC Order no. BD524214 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quick Reference for Verilog HDL Rajeev Madhavan/Cadence, Automta, 26 pp., $15.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Official reference from a company affiliated with Cadence is slicker, spiral bound and gives more examples than Sutherland' s. --GC Order no. BD524282 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Structured Logic Design with VHDL Armstrong/Gray, Prentice Hall, 482 pp., $55.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new book on computer-aided digital design using VHDL describes the language in detail and provides plenty of actual design examples using VHDL. The approach follows three different design levels (algorithmic, register and gate level) and illustrates the design of combinational and sequential logic. Also provides a chapter on algorithmic synthesis. --SM Order no. AS491671 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Microcomputer Engineering Gene H. Miller, Prentice Hall, 544 pp., $62.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This text examines the fundamentals of hardware and software organization. The Motorola 68HC11EVB is used as the training tool, and a near-complete tutorial on the operation and use of Motorola' s training board is included as an appendix. Although not electrically deep, the digital aspects of system design are conceptually clear. A well-written book on system design is hard to find, and one that focuses on a non- Intel chip even more so. This book satisfies both criteria well. -- TM Order no. BD429933 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Logic Synthesis & Optimization Tsutomu Sasao, ed., Kluwer, 375 pp., $92.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Textbook presentation of papers from the 1992 Int' l Symposium of Logic Synthesis and Microprocessor Architecture. Topics range from two/multi-level optimization to asynchronous circuits to FPGA design and EXOR logic synthesis. Many digital logic books cover optimization of logic circuits, yet none does as thorough a job as this one. Please note: the optimizations presented in the book do not take into account glitch control in digital circuits--the papers focus on minimizing the number of elements in a circuit. --TM Order no. AS504088 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Parallel Processing Bruno Codenotti/Mauro Leoncini, Addison-Wesley, 272 pp., $30.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduces parallel computation in a logical, technical algorithmic manner. Discusses computational complexity, parallel computational models, algorithms, archtectures and VLSI from hardware and software standpoints. --RD Order no. AS494720 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Semiconductor Device Modeling With SPICE, 2nd edition Giuseppe Massobrio/Paolo Antognetti, McGraw-Hill, 479 pp., $55.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The only book on SPICE that describes the device models themselves. This second edition features updated and expanded coverage of SPICE and SPICE-based programs to simulate and predict the perfomance of circuits. Covers semiconductor devices: PN junctions, BJTs, JFETs, MOSTs, MESFETs, ISFETs, SCR-thyristors. --TP Order no. BD513710 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel' s SL Architecture: Designing Portable Applications Desmond Yuen, Intel/McGraw-Hill, 329 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This detailed reference provides guidelines for designing a portable computer based on Intel' s 486 SL and 386 SL CPUs. Covers System Management Mode, power management, bus/memory interfacing, writing an SL BIOS. Includes disk with utility programs, sample code ands schematics for a notebook computer design. --KO Order no. BD477018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentium Processor User' s Manuals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 1: Pentium Processor Data Book Intel, 246pp., $25.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD534112 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 2: 82496 Cache Controller and 82491 Cache SRAM Data Book Intel, 425 pp., $27.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD534128 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3: Architecture and Programming Manual Intel, 812 pp., $27.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Order no. BD534133 The official documents on Intel' s hot (literally!) new microprocessor. Volume 1 covers the " bare metal"--Pentium hardware (pin descriptions, electrical specs, bus cycles). Volume 2 describes Pentium' s cache/memory support chips, along with a detailed look at bus signals, memory ready/write cycles, etc. Volume 3 is the programmer' s guide, and includes an instruction set reference, plus sections on compatibility, optimization and system programming. --KO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation Anita Flynn/Joseph Jones, A.K. Peters, 349 pp, $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An excellent robot builders' manual with all the basics! Covers design and construction of mobile robots--sensors, actuators, power supplies, and intelligence systems. Shows how to build two simple robots (TuteBot and Rug Warrior) along with more sophisticated techniques. Based on research at the Mobot Lab at MIT. Appendices give schematics and interface electronics, a program of behaviors, a list of suppliers for parts, and a roster of magazines, journals and BBSs devoted to robotics. --TR Order no. BD427590 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Digital Logic Design John P. Hayes, Addison-Wesley, 815 pp., $60.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For those just starting with digital logic design. Coverage ranges from the purpose of digital systems to numbering systems to combinational/sequential logic, and applying all these concepts in an overview of system architecture. It doesn' t cover the electrical characteristics of certain design elements (i.e. propagation delays), yet it does present their effect on the system as a whole. --TM Order no. BD494850 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Design Of Microprocessor-Based Systems Nikitas Alexandridis, Prentice Hall, 541 pp., $63.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Most systems design books focus on a particular microprocessor (and its family support chips). However,it can be advantageous to compare two different architectures side- by-side. Although this book is not a comparative study of the Intel and Motorola system architectures, it does allow such a perspective. Covers topics from architecture/system concepts to bus transfers and industry system busses to memory management and interrupt processing. Processors covered are the Intel 80x86 (up to the i486) family and the Motorola (up to the 68040) family of microprocessors. A survey that is long overdue, this is perfect for those wondering what makes the Intel and Motorola systems so different (and similar) in design. --TM Order no. BD511294 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PowerPC 601: RISC Microprocessor User' s Manual Motorola/IBM, 794 pp., $9.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Essential for hardware and software developers working with this hot new IBM/Motorola/Apple chip, giving the architecture of the user instruction set, virtual environment and operating environment. Since MPC601 bridges the POWER and PowerPC architecture, this manual also explains how MPC601 differs from PowerPC. --VE Order no. BD541638 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PowerPC Tools: Development Tools for PowerPC Microprocessors Motorola/IBM, 144 pp., $9.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalogs 60 products for software and hardware developers who work with this new IBM/Motorola/Apple chip: software generation and debug tools, system development tools, operating systems, board-level products, training. --VE Order no. AS541596 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Arithmetic Algorithms Israel Koren, Prentice Hall, 210 pp., $52.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A good reference for basic computer arithmetic. By focusing on the algorithms involved, the author gives hardware independent solutions to the material, including simple and optimized arithmetic, the IEEE floating point standard,& trigonometric and other elementary functions. --DH Order no. AS491666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hard Disk Secrets John Goodman, IDG Books, 562 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical details and tidbits of information on hard disks, including components (read/write heads, stepper motors), interfaces (ST412/ST506, ESDI, IDE, SCSI), and performance issues (effects of sector interleave and head skewing). Takes aim primarily at DOS folk (with 120 pages devoted to SpinRite, a DOS disk utility program), although hard disk users of all computer persuasions may find some of the non-DOS specific material valuable. Includes disk containing hard disk utilities for IBM PCs. --KO Order no. BD497165 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ISA & EISA Theory & Operation Edward Solari, Annabooks, 490 pp., $89.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comprehensive coverage of PC system architecture and bus cycles, with extra info on add-on cards. Much useful reference material. Looks at systems from a hardware point of view (down to connector pin specs) as compared with the other authoritative books on the subject (i.e. the PC System Architecture series from MindShare Press, which applies more of a programming point of view). --VE Order no. BD498944 =============== Security =============== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INFOSEC Handbook: An Information Systems Security Reference Guide, 2nd ed. Arca, 254 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The most complete reference for computer security. Lists acronyms, definitions, related standards, and guidelines. Provides the only integration of TCSEC requirements and their interpretations, broken down for easier use. --DD Order no. AS531352 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Managing Microcomputer Security Robert Snoyer/Glenn Fischer, eds., Business One/Dow Jones Irwin, 431 pp., $50.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The only book that presents a clear, comprehensive and focused security assessment for the personal computer and workstation environment. Reviews microcomputer/workstation hardware, software, networking security and disaster recovery. Includes case studies, legal security aspects, check lists, security evaluations and assessment procedures. Intended for users and managers responsible for computer security at home or at work. --RD Order no. BD506730 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Architecture for Open Distributed Systems Sead Muftic et al., Wiley, 280 pp., $65.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presents design, details and principles of a global integrated security system. Describes security mechanisms, services and protocols, integrated security architectures and secure network applications. Includes an analysis of the ISO/OSI standard for security architecture and the design of the Comprehensive Integrated Security System. Based on vol. 2 of the report of the CEC COST-11 Ter Project " Security Mechanisms for Computer Networks". --RD Order no. AS480990 =============== Databases =============== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advanced Topics in DB2 Blaine Lucyk, Addison-Wesley, 510 pp., $43.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Great book for experienced DB2 database administrators, with many how-to solutions not in IBM' s manuals. No theories here, just practical DB2 and SQL management. The section on performance is by itself worth the price of the book. Good backup and recovery tips, including a surprising trick to restore dropped tables. Includes code for 7 utility programs. -- VE Order no. BD507251 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help! Paradox for Windows Lisa Biow, Ziff-Davis, 1,042 pp., $27.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The most informative of the first books on Paradox for Windows. It works both as a teaching tool and as a serious, well-indexed reference, covering even advanced features and the ObjectPAL language. If the many possibilities of Paradox for Windows overwhelm you, try this book before resorting to sledgehammers. --VE Order no. BD496931 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FoxPro 2.5 Advanced Developer' s Handbook Pat Adams/Jordan Powell, Brady, 871 pp., $49.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This book/disk gives more of the info developers--not end users--actually need than any other so far. For example, what is your first step in building a FoxPro app? This book says your first step is to get a signed letter of agreement and a retainer fee from your client, and provides a sample agreement. Now that is real-world programming. Other strong points include damaged file recovery, good tips on Rushmore opti- mization, multi-user systems and networking. Could use more on underlying structures. Appendices include a directory of 21 add-on tools, error messages, trouble-shooting and the IRS 20 QuestionsÑwhich taxmen ask every consultant who gets audited. Disk includes code from the book plus two utilities. -- VE Order no. BD469185 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Object-Oriented Databases Dimitris Chorafas/Heinrich Steinmann, Prentice Hall, 318 pp., $33.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How can object orientation be used in databases? This book answers that question. First the authors review theoretical considerations in software engineering and in database management--giving short shrift to relational DBMS. After clearly establishing OODB benefits, they profile the leading object DBMS software products in the U.S. and Japan. --VE Order no. BD493438 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Temporal Databases: Theory, Design, and Implementation Abdullah Uz Tansel et al., eds., Benjamin Cummings, 633 pp., $54.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pioneering book on temporal databasesÑdatabases for storing and querying data that varies with timeÑis a collection of 23 papers plus introductory sections. The papers present theoretical issues (especially math) in-depth for relational extensions and non-relational variants, introduce six temporal SQLs and touch on implementation. No index. --VE Order no. BD507267 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Solutions for Networked Databases: How to Move from Heterogeneous Structures to Federated Concepts Dimitris Chorafas/Heinrich Steinmann, Academic Press, 320 pp., $59.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some theory, but mostly presents the latest standards and actual solutions that provide cross-database connectivity for networked databases. Based on a research project involving 85 organizations in North America, Japan and Europe. Only touches on distributed databases, but gives good info on schemata and protocols, including Japanese efforts, ANSI SQL and IRDS. The last third of the book covers real-life applications, such as IBM' s DRDA, DataLens and the Multivendor Integration Architecture (MIA) initiated by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone with IBM, DEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu and NEC. --VE Order no. BD520430 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Database Connectivity: The Key to Enterprise Applications on the Desktop Richard Hackathorn, Wiley, 326 pp., $39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A clearly-written, hands-on book for software developers and data managers who need to connect and downsize database applications. Gives the most understandable descriptions of IBM' s DRDA, OSI' s RDA and Microsoft' s ODBC, and tells the differences between them. Covers process management (transaction control, concurrency, security), client/server issues and other topics. --VE Order no. BD480764 =========== Graphics =========== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Flights Of Fantasy Christopher Lampton, Waite Group, 556 pp., $34.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The first book detailing how to create a simple flight simulator on the IBM PC. Introduces graphics programming using Borland C++. The various modules (scenery, sound, flight simulator, control interface) each receive due treatment. Includes a disk with source code and executables.--WM Order no. AS484711 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Super VGA Graphics: Programming Secrets Steve Rimmer, Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 580 pp., $36.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Information on graphics hardware and software, including graphic files, color graphics, display fonts, printing SVGA graphics, animating a mouse and cursor, writing animated games. Code is in C and assembly. Much of the information is new, some previously published in the author' s three prior volumes on bit-mapped graphics programming. Disk has programs and sample code. --RD Order no. BD512277 ======================== Human-Computer Interfaces ======================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Things That Make Us Smart Donald Norman, Addison-Wesley, 290 pp., $22.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman not only shows how poor design can make things nearly impossible to use, but also gives examples of good inventions, like charts, graphs and vertical file cabinets, and shows how they make us smarter. Norman is an Apple Fellow and the author of The Design of Everyday Things. --CC Order no. AS506918 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Usability Engineering Jakob Nielsen, Academic Press, 358 pp., $ 39.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Covers usability testing, assesment methods beyond testing, usability lifecycle, heuristics, and standards. Shows how to improve user interfaces and avoid familiar problems (e.g. having users frequently request changes, leaving out important tasks, users not understanding their own needs, and poor user-analyst communication). Discusses the importance of distinctive user interfaces in a world of increasingly open systems, and international user interface standards. 14 pages of exercises let you experiment with the methods covered in the book. --TR Order no. BD524319 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Developing User Interfaces Deborah Hix/Rex Harston, Wiley, 381 pp., $34.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gives a methodology and process of ensuring and developing product usability through user-centered design. Presents user/computer interaction design guidance and standards. Explains interaction styles such as windows, menus, forms and boxes. Demonstrates User Action Notation (UAN, a task- oriented notation) for the design process. --RD Order no. AS510044 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GUI Guide: International Terminology for the Windows Interface Microsoft, Microsoft Press, 239 pp., $29.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Useful book and disk for developers who want to make versions of their software for other countries. Gives overview of English names of Windows features and actions, but 69% of the book is lists of the same terms translated into 14 languages. Shows keyboard layouts for all 14, and (even better) standard time, date, numerical and currency formats of 23 countries that speak those languages. Disk has the lists of terms in Write and Excel formats. A time-saver! For more see IBM' s Object Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access Guidelines (review on page 5) --VE Order no. BD491027 ========= MS DOS ========= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Norton' s DOS 6 Guide Peter Norton, Brady Books, 708 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated and revised for DOS 6, the book serves an essential source of guidance for beginners and intermediate DOS users. Norton does a good job in explaining each option for a DOS command. For example, he goes over each command used in CONFIG.SYS. In addition to covering the new enhancements to DOS, the book contains a comprehensive command summary, detailed index and glossary. --SK Order no. BD501930 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Gookin' s Guide to Underground DOS 6.0 Dan Gookin, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 409 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For those who have become familiar with DOS and want to take the next step. It digs below the surface and explains the workings of the command.com, config.sys, autoexec.bat and ansi.sys. There is info on how DOS handles devices, improving your systems performance, using redirection and piping, and using DEBUG. Has an excellent section introducing details of memory management. --LS Order no. BD479429 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Running MS DOS 6 , 6th edition Van Wolverton, Microsoft Press, 613 pp., $24.95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Example-driven book updated to cover Memmaker, DoubleSpace, Defrag, Anti-Virus and MSBackup and the other enhancements that make up MS-DOS 6.0. Shows how to use MS-DOS from the beginning of getting a directory listing to writing custom batch files. Includes appendixes on upgrading to version 6.0, a glossary, and a complete command reference. --WM Order no. BD510290 ==================== CUSTOMER SERVICES ==================== We ship anywhere in the world: Books in stock at our San Jose store are shipped within 2 working days. Overnight delivery is available. See our order form inside for shipping methods. Choose from the world's largest selection of computer books: This newsletter shows you only a tiny part of our collection. 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