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- From: nelson@desktop.nsc.com (Taed Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: @ Re: Technical dictionary
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.155551.21885@berlioz.nsc.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:55:51 GMT
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- In article <BtyEnK.LsL@wpi.WPI.EDU>, mugsy@winton.uucp (Michael G. Bruce) writes:
- > Does anyone know of a quality CS dictionary? While I have a working knowledge
- > of terms such as MIPS, FLOPS, IPC, etc, I have occasion to need a proper,
- > concise definition.
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- Although not "concise", I would highly recommend _The Encyclopedia of Computer
- Science_. It's about 2000 pages, and has 1/2 - 4 page articles on
- everything about CS that you would ever want to know. Particularly
- interesting is the history and details of the "classic" machines. I don't
- know who publishes/ed it, but it goes for about $50 used.
-