About the Book
Table of Contents:
Moby Dick 2.1, Kenneth M. Sheldon; a standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers, David Waitzman; a problem in the making, Darryl Rubin; how I bought my first computer, Larry R. Custead; BOFH (part 1), Simon Travaglia; the generic word processor, Philip Schrodt; natural upgrade path, Christopher Lishka; the case of the bogus expert (part 1), Kris Hammond; ordinary people tell how they use their personal computers, Lucinda Luongo; I am the very model of a genius comptuational, Jonathan R. Partington; Zork, RAMS and the curse of Ra - computo, ergo sum, Curt Suplee; laptop Colombo puts Campbell in the soup, Lai See; masters of computer science, Lindsay Marshall; you'd better love your BLANK computer - the generic computer book, Duncan Mackenzie; Shakespeare on programming, Michael A. Covington; evil aliens control IBM, Freddy Smarm; mother should have warned you!, Paul Bonner; BOFH (part 2), Simon Travaglia; latest sun and IBM announcements, Chuck Musciano; twelve ways to fool the masses when giving performance results on parallel computers, David H. Bailey; the case of the bogus expert (part 2), Kris Hammond; real programmers don't use Pascal, Ed Post; gateway to heaven, Eileen Tronolone; Zen and the art of software documentation, W.C. Carlson; the unix philosophy, anonymous; field replacable mouse balls, anonymous; babbage - the language of the future, Tony Karp; Gulliver's computer, Jonathan Swift; "Uncle Bill" is in the driver's seat!, anonymous; to my darling husband, anonymous; computer-based predictive writing, Peter J. Denning; making your serviceman feel welcome, anonymous; man, bytes, dog, James Gorman; microsloshed walls, Trygve Lode; the tin men, Michael Frayn; a users view from the trailing edge, William E. Kost; Lisp - they may also serve, who decline to enlist, Robert M. Baer; the case of the bogus expert (part 3), Kris Hammond; alternatives to OSI, Jock C. St. Martin; a salutory tale of software development, anonymous; you get what you pay for?, Stephen Manes; you can't fool 'em down on the farm!, anonymous; BOFH (part 3), Simon Travaglia; ADA - the devil's work, Herman Higgins; netmail spreads common cold, Craig Milo Rogers; I know what's wrong with my computer!, anonymous; what is technical harassment?, Rick Fadler; I'm just a two-bit programmer on a 16-bit machine, David S. Platt; if architects had to work like programmers, J. David Ruggiero; VAX and IBM, anonymous; the Australian fifth degeneration project, Lee Naish; an ancient rope-and-pulley comptuer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul, A.K. Dewdney; the Vaxorcist, Christopher Russell; small ads, Lindsay Marshall; la boite bleue, William A. Rennie; the difference between hardware and software, anonymous; user friendly? you must be joking, Dan Greenberg; a day in the life of a network manager, Larry R. Custead; the complexity of songs, Donald E. Knuth; write in C, anonymous; a simplified guide to hardware maintenance, David H. Ahl. (Part contents).
