8 Apr
2001
8 Apr
'01
2:17 p.m.
At 06:52 PM 4/7/01 +0100, Tony wrote:
Tony's right. I have lots of old engineering books and many of them are
much better written than the current crop of books. I particurly like the
old McGraw-Hill series of engineering books, I pick up just about everyone
that I find.
Joe
I've been noticing a very disturbing trend...anything that isn't an
overclocked Intel box is "old" or "legacy".
The same seems to apply to books as well. I keep on finding excellent
electronics books in second-hand bookshops that have been 'withdrawn'
from some company library or other. Doubtless to be replaced by much
poorer modern books (there simply aren't enough good modern books to
replace as many books as I find second hand...).