Thanks. You and schoen are right--I'd forgotten about Fup's "obituary". I hadn't been so regular a visitor to the bookstore since the late 90's.
Around that time pace of change was speeding up, everything in the computing field evolving so quickly when a book was published it was already obsolete. "Dead tree" books were much less necessary.
I stopped in a few days ago (tech books now located closer to the main bookstore) looking for a reference book on computer security. Alas, selection was meager, the shelf space devoted to computing topics less than a tenth what it once was.
The store now overflows with tons of books on birds and botany, cars and many worthy things. Still see a few old digital museum pieces in random corners, but hardly a trace of Fup and her glorious era.
Around that time pace of change was speeding up, everything in the computing field evolving so quickly when a book was published it was already obsolete. "Dead tree" books were much less necessary.
I stopped in a few days ago (tech books now located closer to the main bookstore) looking for a reference book on computer security. Alas, selection was meager, the shelf space devoted to computing topics less than a tenth what it once was.
The store now overflows with tons of books on birds and botany, cars and many worthy things. Still see a few old digital museum pieces in random corners, but hardly a trace of Fup and her glorious era.