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PC Telephony: The Complete Guide to Designing, Building and Programming Systems Using Dialogic and Related Hardware

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PC Telephony is the "manual" of Parity Software's VOS program and is targeted at novice PC telephony programmers. The book describe briefly several Dialogic boards that and the way VOS override C Programming. The book is interesting for those wishing to test or adopt Parity's VOS for programming their Dialogic Boards... BUT recently Parity released its new version of VOS. Spend your money on another book !

I bought the '92 copyright, and if that book is indicative of the quality of this one, spend your money elsewhere.

It's like, if I want to setup a Dialogic CT system, I'll just ask the manuf for the manual.

Quite possibly the only book I've seen that conveys absolutely no redeeming information to the reader. I've also never seen a book in this price range use text as the method for constructing illustrations.

Edgar strikes again. If this guy would spend as much time doing his research as he does in self-promotion, this book would be great. Unfortunately, for whatever reason (most likely personality defect) the hype is the thing.

Besides this book having no redeming value, VOS or ADE or whatever his ... software is called is nearly useless in its own right.

How does the saying go, "the bigger the lie, the more people believe it." Edgar thinks if he can tell you how many books he's published on all different aspects of telephony you'll respect his genius. Actually he sinks lower with each lousy book. Though how he could go lower than this one, I don't know. Buy his next piece of trash book to find out.

If you ended your search on this book, I would say you can do better. I tried to read to the book taking all approaches I know, but it seems this book is not supposed to read at all. Seems like it was written not with the intention to serve but for just the sake of it.

I'm not totally hopeless though, this book can be taken as an example of what techno-mumbo-jumbo means. You can read an entire chapter or a set of chapter to a client of yours and you bet not only will he be impressed but he wont get a word of it.

I'll add though that I'm writing this review a long time after I bought the book as it was only recently that I `tried' reading it. If some of the info in the book is obsolete, you cant really hold the author responsible for that. But this review is considering that.

I just think there are better books on the subject if you want the time you spent reading to amount for something.

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WINDOWS TELEPHONY PROGRAMMIN