So in the interest of not belaboring "[time-nuts]' with a long discussion of AOE that may border on "off topic", or at least not enough "on topic", I'll follow up my last post by noting that I went to amazon and read through several of the (very) thorough reviews, and many of my points/questions from my previous post were answered.
Brent On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:46 AM, brent evers <[email protected]> wrote: > +1. I'll probably buy a copy anyway (not that I need it so much anymore), > but I'd like to know what has changed, what you think has improved, what > you think has been missed, etc. > > The 2nd edition was fantastic, but so much of the EE world has changed I > think it would be hard to cover it as well as the precious edition did and > still retain the same flavor and utility. I looked through the TOC a few > weeks ago and still wondered the same. I know that in some (small, getting > smaller) circles, the original content still pertains, but on whole, the > advent of microprocessors and their respective toolchains, FPGA's and their > displacement of discreet logic, and the tremendous growth and reduction in > scale of all RF electronics in some ways obviate the previous text and I > guess I'm wondering if those things and similar developments preclude the > success of the third edition. > > Then again, as well as the 2nd edition did it, I have high hopes. It is a > classic. > > Brent > > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Jim Palfreyman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What's been added? This is a brilliant book, but I need to know what the >> updates are! >> >> Jim >> >> >> On 17 April 2015 at 18:12, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > -------- >> > In message <[email protected]>, Andrea Baldoni >> > writes: >> > >> > >Hello. >> > >In the case someone missed the new, after years of waiting, the third >> > edition >> > >of the book in the subject is out! >> > >> > I received it last week, and yes, it's absolutely worth the money. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by >> incompetence. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, go to >> > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> > and follow the instructions there. >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
