This book is a very practical and valuable book on performance tuning of HP 3000 systems. The author (Rober Lund) has been working with HP 3000 systems for 12 or so years and has supported, consulted and managed thousands of HP 3000s. He really knows his stuff. His company (Lund Solutions) also makes a tool that we used on our performance benchmark project. The book references the tool (HP 3000 SOS Performance Advisor & Gallery) and makes it very easy to ascertain the perfomrance bottlenecks of your HP 3000 systems (both Classic as well as PA RISC machines).

...I am an IBM employee. I still thought the book was very good and was very valuable during our performance testing and benchmarking effort of and HP 3000 system. I had no experience with the HP 3000 Operation System before.

The book is fine. ()It only contains standards from 1932.This book is not very usefull to anyone building to current standards.

It has 154 more pages than the 9th edition, so it has new information, but as you page through it you will find it seems almost identical. They need to keep most of the old data, so I wouldn't take off points for that. You can see the publisher's review for all of the new features: I noticed that the Historic Preservation chapter has been shortened a bit.

Potentially, the biggest addition is the CD-ROM, which has CAD files ready to use, and includes pretty much everything from the book. You might think that you are getting all that for the cost of the book, but...no. The "demo" CD comes in a sleeve inside the back cover, and is noted: "Full functionality, Limited data." You can access a drawing of a bar joist, for example. It exports a DWG or DXF file with layers based on line weights. The interface is pretty clear; you don't have to read any instructions to start using it. The CD actually has all of the data, but you have to pay another $425 online to "unlock" it. That could be a bargain, but I suspect that most firms will feel that their own detail library is more applicable to the work they do. Still, $425 represents less than a day's worth of billable hours.

Every architect knows the value of this book, and most every architecture firm (in the U.S. anyway) will want at least one copy just to stay current, and because the old one is getting worn out. You might as well get it now, and decide on the CD-ROM later. I'd love to have a special edition set with each page ever published in all of the AGS books, or even just the last 3 or 4. I'd give that 6 stars.

A good reference book but of limited use, Its tables of materials is quit limited, especially sections dealing with steel,wood and concrete structural properties. The book tries to touch on all things at the expense of specificity in regards to basic materials and building techniques, The book would be fine for Architectural students but would be of limited use as a reference book for design. Severly over priced.

This book is a fairly decent book about performance issues and is perfect for the beginner to the world of sys admininistration. However, as an experienced admin I found 85% of the material redundant or just plain common sense. The routine commands and compilation methods are geared to the begginer. There are few case studies and the ones listed were quite bland. The layout of the book was excellent though. Recommend to any one who is a beginner or who has not taken a performance tuning class. Joe Holbrook, CET, CNST Certified HP Technical Proffesional

The only book I can find in the market which talks about HP-UX tuning and an excellent one too ! It does not just cover HP-UX specific tools and methods but performance management methodology as well. I personally find it helpful and I am sure it's not just another "dust-collecting" book on the shelf.

I enjoyed this book. I come from a Solaris background, which doesn't ship with tools such as glance. The authors gives in-depth insight into how to use this tool as well as many others. They also do an excellent job of giving in depth details of how HP processes I/O and handles hardware.

I did not want a book that issued commands and told you how to interpret them. Thankfully, this book doesn't do this. It gives a complete explanation as to how HP uses machine resources, and only then shows you how to use the tools to tune the box. This is great in my mind because you understand how it works and can draw your own conclusions. Overall, it is an excellent resource and is exactly what I was looking for.

This book is barely worth the paper it was printed on. First of all, it for HP Vee version 5.0. If you're looking for something to cover the newer Agilent 6.0 release, this is not it. The author does not go into Vee's sometimes quirky file handling (eg places where you need quotes and double slashes'\\' in the path), he gives extremely generic instrument control examples and no serial port command examples. Need to know how to print off test data sheets? This book won't tell you. Need to know what the EOL ON or EOL OFF means in an instrument transaction? Don't look in the book. After reading the book, I came away with the feeling it was more of a high priced sales brochure of what Vee can do rather than a reference guide to Vee programming.

I'm ticked off and I hav'nt even started the book! For the price of this book the publisher could have at least included the evaluation software CD. There are 341 pages counting overview and checklists in each chapter. There are 45 more pages in Appendux B: "Additional Lab Exercises". Since these exercises are added on the end of the book, I would expect them to be more complex than those within the previous chapters. An apple counting program is not my Idea of a program that I could use in test equipment instrumentation. OK thats it. I'm done grouching and off to download the software.

As claimed by the author, this book is really the "fastest and easiest way" to learn HP VEE. Perhaps, the software itself is easy to use. For more advanced topics, consult the VEE product documentation. Note that the new VEE has built-in MATLAB scripts and signal processing toolbox which are not covered in the third edition. But the book already provides a solid foundation to explore other new features of the software including MATLAB functions. My students manage to build test and measurement application less than a week when using VEE in conjunction with this book!