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I just read his selected bibliography on wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_(author)#Publicat... ) and I somehow never realized that all these foundational works of computer science were written by the same guy. "Design of real time computer systems" in particular is part of the bedrock of modern computing.

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We referenced that book heavily back when we were building a real-time medical data acquisition system. I still remember some of the charts from it. Like optimizing for lowest disk latency.

And Wikipedia is missing what is, to me, his best known book from 1991: Rapid Application Development. You can get it on Amazon, though.

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