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Article #1669Seeking opinions on Quaterman's "Matrix"
From: Tim Dayger
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 02:01
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 02:01
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All: I'm thinking about purchasing a copy of John Quaterman's book the "Matrix". I'd like to hear from people who've read it. My main questions are these; 1) How comprehensive/complete is it? Do you feel that you gained a substantial amount of knowledge/understanding from it? 2) How "readable" is this work: Is it written in fairly plain English, such that someone oF normal intelligence with general knowledge of existing networks can fathom it? Or is this another one of those "textbooks" where the author tries to dazzle the reader with his extreme brilliance and self-importance by packing 20 jargon terms into every sentence; wether needed or not? 3) Is it worth the $49.95 sticker-price? Your response is appreciated. --- Tim E Dayger dayger@oswego.oswego.edu dayger@snyoswva.bitnet ------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!oswego!news From: dayger@penelope.Oswego.EDU (Tim Dayger) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.misc Subject: Seeking opinions on Quaterman's "Matrix" Message-ID: <1990Sep5.020102.21585@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Date: 5 Sep 90 02:01:02 GMT Sender: news@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Network News) Reply-To: dayger@penelope.Oswego.EDU (Tim Dayger) Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY Lines: 26