In message <000e01bd9730$7a1283a0$cf010bce@fauradon>, fauradon(a)pclink.com write
s:
At 07:19 PM
6/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I just found a book Titled Odyssey Pepsi to Apple by John Sculley. It is
the
advance
copy from uncorrected manuscript.
How often do anyone of you run into that kind of print?
I rarely see this kind of thing, but I do have a book titled "Marching
Thru Georgia" that was published in the 1800s that has *three* hard covers
on it and all three are a different style, color and material! Inside the
...
I gues these are the equivalent of prototypes in the publishing industry.
Indeed. When I was preparing to teach a computer architecture course
a few years ago, I got an advance copy of Patterson & Hennessy's
Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface.
It was labeled a beta version. Inside the front cover was an order
form for the real version when it came out. Of course, it's in
second edition now.
Brian L. Stuart