[Coco] My new book (not about computers)

[James Jones]

Guess I'm getting impatient in my old age (and convenience is winning out
over my anti-DRM sentiments); I got the Kindle version, and while I haven't
gotten far yet, what I've read, I like a lot, and I am going to recommend
this book to people.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Awesome post, Tormod !!  I would be first in line to buy that book !!
>
> --- Steve ---
>
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> -----Original Message----- From: Tormod Volden
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:47 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] My new book (not about computers)
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A moment for your list admin. My new book is out today.
>>
>> <
>> http://www.amazon.com/Whaaaaaaaaat-Classical-Music-Self-Help-Desperation/dp/1530729521
>> >
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>
> For those who followed the link (recommended), I will bring this right
> back on-topic. What I read there:
>
> “Whaaaaaaaaat!? I Don’t Get OS-9: A Self-Help Desperation Guide” is a
> tonic for the perplexed, and a companion guide for those who feel OS-9
> is forbidding, complex and grandiose. It is a concise and helpful book
> with humor and insight written by a programmer and user with a
> lifetime of experience. Beginning with bits, bytes and modules, author
> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz covers topics from drivers to shrieking
> descriptors to the mysterious bitmap codes, from os9gen (“the great
> hulk of a program”) through kernel space, boot files, pragmatism, and
> even programmers insulting each other. Written in response to a
> student’s plea for help (“I’m desperate! I don’t get OS-9!”), the book
> is not stuck in the distant past. Instead, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” includes
> classical drivers—which the programmer prefers to call
> “nonfudged”—from ancient times right up to the present day, from 6809
> disassembly through electrons and interrupts to rbf fused with sdc.
> Writes one of his students, “it accomplishes what a textbook does
> without being a textbook.” Another says, “It gets right into the dirty
> details of NitrOS-9 and does so in a way that makes even the most
> novice user feel like a professional.” Explored and critiqued by more
> than two dozen readers from complete amateurs to working
> professionals, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” is insightful, exuberant, funny and,
> according to one CS professor, “terrifically valuable as a corrective
> to bad thinking and its offspring, bad teaching.” In a short, readable
> 100 pages, Bathory-Kitsz shares the madness and mystery of OS-9.
>
>
> Congratulations with your new book, Dennis!
> Tormod
>
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