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  The annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing’s historic paper on computability and the Turing machine
Petzold C., Wiley Publishing, 2008. 384 pp.  Type: Book (9780470229057), Reviews: (2 of 2)

This book is an attempt by Petzold to make Turing’s seminal paper, “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” [1], accessible to ordinary readers; it has indeed turned out to ...
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May 15 2009  
   The annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing’s historic paper on computability and the Turing machine
Petzold C., Wiley Publishing, 2008. 384 pp.  Type: Book (9780470229057), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Computability theory textbooks usually have little historical content, while popular treatments usually have few technical details. This book is the exception that carefully explains one of the fundamental papers of the 20th century, p...
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Sep 18 2008  
  Programming Windows 3.1 (3rd ed.)
Petzold C., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 1992.  Type: Book (9781556153952)

A year ago, having some Windows programming experience, I read the first edition of this book (in a bad photocopy) [1] from the end to the beginning, because only the last chapters were available. After a while, I continued with the mi...
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Feb 1 1994  
  Programming the OS/2 presentation manager
Petzold C., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 1989.  Type: Book (9789781556151705)

The OS/2 presentation manager provides an application programmer with an interface that is identical to the Microsoft Windows environment. This tome progressively introduces the reader to the use of version 2 of the presentation &#...
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Jun 1 1991  

   
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