Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:05:54 -0500 From: Andy Oram <andyo@ora.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: platforms@FreeBSD.org, carr_richard@tandem.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD/MIPS anybody Message-ID: <199612032005.PAA18971@ruby.ora.com>
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I don't think it's fair to say we've "turned our back," but we're not guarding UNIX with an ever-turning sword either. To be less abstract about it, we're doing fewer books about UNIX and more books about NT and cross-platform stuff (Web, Java) than we did several years ago. That's partly because the industry is (unfortunately) moving away from UNIX, and partly because we've done a good job on UNIX and there aren't as many new topics there as before. I don't mind at all people knowing that we're doing other books, but please, we don't plan to abandon UNIX at all. I'm doing your debugging book, after all. I'm working on another couple Linux books, and I'm considering a couple other projects in the UNIX arena. But I don't expect to get huge returns for doing these things. Our The virtual memory idea does sound too academic and not practical enough for our series. UNIX is one thing, BSD is another. I'm personally not sure how much we should have supported BSD. The message I kept getting from my superiors here (as you proposed various projects) was that BSD was no longer a big enough market. The suddenly our German subsidiary decided to publish a BSD-specific book. I think my managers were disappointed at poor sales of the official BSD4.4 manual set; they didn't realize we might have been able to make a god product with something that was our own material. Andy
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