[Coco] My new book (not about computers)

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

Everybody please note that Tormod's post was a rewrite of the original, as a
joke. The book as about MUSIC, not computers. Just in case somebody is reading
too fast. :)

Dennis


On Tue, May 17, 2016 9:11 pm, James Jones wrote:
> 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 ---
>>
>>
>> -----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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