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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
insightful book
this book does very well at helping us understand computer lingo, though it might be slightly over the head of some people. A highly original book
Published on May 19, 2000
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very long winded with little to recommend it
This book offered so much and delivered very little. If you're looking to discover why "byte" is spelt the way it is or where the term originated from, you won't find it here. Unless you are well coached in the babble of English Lit then a lot of Barry's prose will go right over your head. He seems to have received most of his information from the Random...
Published on April 2, 1999
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
insightful book,
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This review is from: Technobabble (Paperback)
this book does very well at helping us understand computer lingo, though it might be slightly over the head of some people. A highly original book
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very long winded with little to recommend it,
By A Customer
This review is from: Technobabble (Paperback)
This book offered so much and delivered very little. If you're looking to discover why "byte" is spelt the way it is or where the term originated from, you won't find it here.Unless you are well coached in the babble of English Lit then a lot of Barry's prose will go right over your head. He seems to have received most of his information from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary - every second pages seems to quote from it. If I were interested in what Random House had to say then I would have bought their dictionary and not this book! Don't bother looking here for lively and interesting tales about how various words came to be, instead have a look at such books as Hackers, Digital Deli, The Devouing Fungus, The Naked Computer, and The Hackers Dictionary. |
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Technobabble by John A. Barry (Hardcover - Oct. 1991)
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