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Date: Tue 26 Jun 84 15:34:01-PDT
From: uw-beaver!:Tony.Siegman@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
Subject: Books On the Macintosh?
Sender: uw-beaver!G.SIEGMAN@SU-SCORE.ARPA
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
Reply-To: G.SIEGMAN@SU-SCORE.ARPA


An earlier message on this bboard recommended "The Apple Macintosh Book" by
Cary Lu (Microsoft Press).  I bought this book, and find it of very little
value, at least for anyone with any significant previous computer experience.
While it contains a few nuggets of information buried here and there that
slightly extend what is given in the elementary Mac documentation, it mostly
contains very elementary information about how to use the Mac; a lot of largely
irrelevant and discursive information about other computer topics, programs,
and the e; and not much else.  I don't find it's organization or presentation
particularly clear or outstanding.  In particular, I don't find a clear
explanation, which I would like to have gotten, of the fundamental organization
of the Mac (how the Finder, the system, and the various applications are
organized and interrelated, and how this differs from more conventional
computers).  I also don't find much detailed technical information, beyond
the limited amount in the documentation that comes with the Mac.

Obviously, the $150 version of "Inside Mac" lies at the other extreme (and
Stanford's Computer Department Library now has a copy); but if you're
looking for something that falls somewhere in between "Inside Mac" and
the elementary documentation, Lu's book isn't it.  If there exists such
a book, I'd like to hear about it.
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