SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: book recommendations; only
Re: SIGIA-L: book recommendations; only peripherally IA related
From: Dennis (djhuston_at_21stcentury.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 09:18:23 EDT
Samantha,
btw - the full text of _In the Beginning... was the Command Line_ by Neal
Stephenson, is available online at:
http://www.spack.org/words/commandline.html
Drive sportscars, not station wagons...^_^
Dennis Huston
Samantha Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently read two books that I really enjoyed and thought I'd share the
> info., in case others may be interested:
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> _In the Beginning... was the Command Line_ by Neal Stephenson
> (This one doesn't really have anything to do with IA directly.) This is an
> essay about the relative merits and pitfalls of the dominant ways OS design
> and distribution have been handled (Apple, Microsoft, UNIX, GNU/LINUX,
> BeOS). The blurb on the back of the book suggests the essay could be about
> everything and nothing, so I really read it because I'm a fan of
> Stephenson's novels, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is
> really an engaging and focused essay. It is insightful and laugh out loud
> funny in several places. Kind of a beach-book for geeks.
>
> sb
>
> Samantha Bailey
> samantha_at_baileysorts.com | http://baileysorts.com
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