[aklug] Re: Free Stuff: Manuals to give away

  Chris will take the Touretzky manual.
  That leaves the Dynace and the ASM.

* Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> [160918 11:34]:
>
> Many trees were slaughtered in the process of creating the following
> manuals:
>
> Dynace
> See https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace
>
> It's a CLOS-inspired (author's words) "overlay" for C. It is not
> c++ and the author claims that it is superior to C++ . :) Still in
> development.
>
> I've got an almost 400-page manual that was printed out close to 20
> years ago and is in pristine condition (no coffee or beer stains).
>
> It is both documentation and tutorial in nature.
>
> Now for the retro stuff:
> A86/D386 Assembler documentation by the author Eric Isaacson.
> About 200 pages, very thorough.
> See http://www.eji.com/a86/ (new as of 2006!)
> (I may have a copy of the assembler around, if I can find it, I'd
> be happy to provide it as well)
>
> Plus :
> The full text of
>
> COMMON LISP: A gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by
> David S Touretzky. (No, Tourettes Syndrome is _not_ named after
> him :))
>
> Over 400 pages. If you don't know much about symbolic
> programming it is a good intro. Even if you (like me) write
> elisp, autolisp, rackett or clojure it's pretty informative.
>
> Be forewarned, this is old stuff and finding a lisp interpreter
> that is backwards compatible might be an issue, but further
> edifications may be achieved by adapting code that may not prove
> to be portable.
>
> Not only were trees slaughtered, I seem to remember as least
> two printers rode hard and put up wet to print these out.
>
> I'd hate to see those trees or printers suffer and die in vain, so I
> owe it to 'em to attempt to recycle before discarding.
>
> Free for the taking. I'm in Palmer.
> --
> Tim
> http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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