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jerhewet

> for posterity

Anyone remember this one?

Microsoft Press: Learn Java Now (complete with J++ installation CD). https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572314281

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Of course, the reason for the lawsuit, and redoing Ext-VOS ideas with Cool instead of J++, later renamed to C#.

Ironically, Microsoft nowadays not only has their OpenJDK based distro, they even host Java conferences.

The CD is available on Archive.org

I have the book (and CD) on my shelf above my machines in my home office. I vaguely recall buying this at Costco, around the same time I bought the 4 volume Microsoft Press C++ series (for dirt cheap, at the time) from Costco.

MS Press used to publish some amazing references. I have a LOT of 'em.

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