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- From: jerome.yuzyk@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jerome Yuzyk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: BOOK RECCOMENDATIONS
- Message-ID: <5176.882.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 00:49:00 GMT
- Reply-To: jerome.yuzyk@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jerome Yuzyk)
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- Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241
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- BK>Can anyone reccomend a good reference book on OS/2 usage? Most of the ones
- BK>I've seen are so basic that they are insulting to anyone who has ever used
- a
- BK>computer before. Thanks.
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- By now you will have heard about the NRP book - it's a good _introduction_ and
- (light) reference to function. There is no better that I've seen anywhere
- (even promised).
-
- To REALLY get to the heart of OS/2 there is another book "The Design of OS/2",
- and it is to OS/2 2.0 what "Inside OS/2" (not the same as the NRP book) was to
- OS/2 1.x - I read that one while waiting for the NRP book, and although
- written
- for programmers, it offered tremendous insight for a prior DOS/Win power user.
- BUT the "...Design..." book costs CAN$62, and is rather small for that.
-
- Then I got the OS/2 Redbooks - CAN$50+GST - and for this price they are a MUST
- for anyone wanting to commit to, support, and/or hack OS/2. For the money,
- I got 6 Redbooks: Control Program, DOS/Windows Env., Pres. Mgr., App
- Development
- Print Subsystem, and a YellowBook: Networking and Systems Services and Support
- (actually a Technical Bulletin). These books are 8-1/2x11 3-hole punched
- softcovers full of design information, so-so graphics (even the INF versions),
- and Lab Session Exercises and printed example code. I can't imagine why
- these books are not more widely recommended, especially given the character of
- most OS frontier-pushers.
-
- If you want to know how to format a floppy, get the NRP book; if you want to
- understand how OS/2 works, get the RedBooks.
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