Raffy:
Note that I'm sending this via PM out of respect to Barry.
You said: "As to Puppy Linux being amateurish, maybe so, although I could not attach the same term to its creator. A google of the words "Kauler microprocessor" would lead one to serious work about microprocessor and programming."
I did just that well over a year ago, Raffy. Want to see what some of his readers have to say about one of his creations?
From [url]http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Assembly-Language-Systems-Programming/dp/087930474X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-9325927-0557704?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195852161&sr=8-1[/url]:
"His second edition is just a rehash of the first edition with a few 32-bit tidbits tossed in among code that will not compile in either TASM or MASM.
Granted, it's the only book available on this subject, so you might was well buy it, but clearly the author didn't spend much time on this edition."
"This book really didn't live up to expectations. I really should've sent it back and ate the shipping."
"The book has clearly been rehashed from previous Kauler literature, even leaving in the same screen shots from 1992!
He also seems to be stuck in a time warp...
...while Kauler is still stuck in the 9x days, blinking in denial as he emerges from a 16-bit slumber."
"This book is really awkward old, uses old conventions and does not deal with the properties of any new operating system."
"Fragmented and outdated. Like an old compiler, claim to do all but in fact falling far behind promise."
"This is interesting stuff. However it's old and a lot of it has a kind of rambling, meandering quality like the author's just mentioning some stuff off the top of his head."
"Steer clear of this book. Kauler has produced a book, published in 1997, that was last relevant in about 1994."
-Jeff