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"How to Use Your Computer", Lisa Biow, 1993, 1-56276-155-2,
U$22.95/C$31.95/UK#20.95
%A   Lisa Biow
%C   201 W. 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN   46290
%D   1993
%G   1-56276-155-2
%I   MacMillan Computer Publishing (MCP)
%O   U$22.95/C$31.95/UK#20.95 800-858-7674 317-581-3743 http://www.mcp.com
%P   398
%T   "How to Use Your Computer"
 
For the most past, this is the usual extremely simplistic presentation that
doesn't quite explain what a computer is or does.  Computer teachers and those
who browse the computer sections of bookstores are bound to have seen others of
the same ilk: fossilized lists of types of software and the inevitable
reference to the CPU (Central Processing Unit) as a computer's "brain".
 
This work does, however, show some promise.  There are occasional flashes of
creativity in the explanations, such as the illustration of DOS as a librarian
of applications (. 178).  (How about multitasking?  Okay, so we can't push an
illustration too far.)
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKHUYCMP.RVW   961216

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