O'REILLY RELEASES DICTIONARY OF COMPUTER TERMS

SEBASTOPOL, CA--O'Reilly & Associates has just published the "Dictionary of
PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms," a reference book that offers
complete descriptions of over 900 terms in two of the most volatile and
interesting areas of computer development: personal computers and
networks.

To create this comprehensive dictionary, author Mitchell Shnier combed the
Internet and other online services to find the latest and most vexing
acronyms and terms. The result of his research is a thorough reference
that contains up-to-date information about everything from a common item
like "batteries" to an obscure font technology called "Speedo."

The definitions in the "Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications
Terms" are cross-referenced and detailed. For example, the description of
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a popular data encryption protocol, covers
three and one-half pages. The terms are also focused. The entry for
PowerPC contains a table listing the clock speed, transistors, width in
bits, cache in kilobytes, and pins of each PowerPC processor currently in
use.

In addition to the book, O'Reilly will support the Dictionary online, to
keep terms up-to-date between printed versions. Each term will have its
own URL, so a single word can be easily accessed without surfing through
the other terms to find it. The online up-dates will be available in
Summer 1996.

Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
By Mitchell Shnier
1st Edition May 1996
532 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-158-5, $19.95

O'Reilly & Associates
103A Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472
707/829-0515, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.ora.com/
 
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