THE TROUBLE WITH COMPUTERS: USEFULNESS, USABILITY, AND PRODUCTIVITY, Thomas K. Landauer, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-12186-7, $25
The entire computer industry -- including this publication -- is predicated on the proposition that computers are useful: T
hey do things people cannot do, or they help people do things better.
- by Edmund X. Dejesus
THE MASTERS: AN INTERACTIVE JOURNEY THROUGH ITS SIXTY-YEAR HISTORY Creative Multimedia, 513 Northwest 13th Ave., Suite 400, Portland, OR 97209, (503) 241-1530, $39.99
You have to breath
e golf 24 hours a day and adore trivia about the Masters tournament to appreciate this CD-ROM (which requires Windows 3.1 or higher).
- by Rich Friedman
THE UNDERGROUND GUIDE TO UNIX by John Montgomery, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-40653-5, $24.95
Although many books cov
er advanced Unix topics, The Underground Guide to UNIX by John Montgomery, who recently joined the BYTE staff, is one of the best I have come across in quite some time.
- by Doug Tamasanis
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