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To: aaron@bignerdranch.com
Subject: Re: Sorry
Love your book, hate the typos which you say are of course not yours
(natch) but the fault of A&W (corresponding with them to get a
better edition, because yes, I regard it as a personal problem that
I do not like having to go online to find corrections for what
should never have occurred in the text of the book), but am at a
loss finally, at the end of the book, because almost the COMPLETE OS
X is missing.
OS X aka NS is enthralling, but my dear friend, we are working here
under - or above, have it any way you wish - Apple's file system,
memory management system, thousands of different systems, and you
have not once detailed these. How one accesses a file on disk, NOT A
SINGLE API; you have not once explained that Mac files have resource
and ordinary 'forks'; you have not once detailed even what a frikkin
fork is; you have not gone into memory management, thread creation -
NONE OF THAT; and this is a text on OS X? Sorry, but you are
ludicrous at best, a rip-off at worst.
For this is not a complete book on NS - this is a book on writing
twerpy NS applications for an OS provider that doesn't want to give
away one binary digit of information about how their OS works,
written by a developer of questionable skills who wants to make a
quick buck.
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