Norton and Salinger

Mattis Fishman (mattis@argos.argoscomp.com)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:27:25 -0400 (EDT)

  Hello friends,

  Colin notes:

> His beginners guide to DOS (or whatever it was called) saved my sanity
> when I first started using a PC.  It had a nice chatty, friendly
> conversational tone, a bit like 'Catcher', maybe it influenced Norton's
> style when he came to write his computer book!  
  
  ["Honey, where's the typewriter?... you know the *typewriter*!.. 
   the garage?... I know it's late but I've got this great idea and all..."]

  "The Hacker in the Rye"

  You probably want to know all about the bits, bytes, sectors and interupt
  vectors, and all that Bill Gates kind of salade...

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  all the best,
  Mattis