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This book is the greatest book ever written..........I not only give it 5 stars, but its 1 Billion stars...This book is highly interesting and very exciting. I would buy a 100 copies and give them as gifts to your friends or familly....I would even buy it for a complete stranger........also, Mrs. Herran is a great teacher!!

This book is NOT a design tool. It's not much of anything, as a matter of fact. It resembles a dumbed-down PowerPC data book, and is marginally easier to read, but it contains much less useful information. The text lacks sufficient detail to be implementation oriented. It focuses far too much on programming basics to be considered design oriented. I think perhaps it was intended to serve as an introductory manual for people who don't know how to read data books.

If you're thinking of using this tool in a classroom setting, please don't. There is little or no information in it that can't be obtained FREE by downloading the PowerPC "Programming Environments" data book and the specific data book for your particular processor directly from Motorola.

I read the review from the other reader and I want to give justice to this book. If the person who bought this book is disappointed because s/he was hoping to get something else instead, it has nothing to do with the quality of the current material. A lot of not so positive reviews I read here fall in the same "erroneously bought" critic syndrom. Regarding this book, this is really excellent if you want to go deeper than simply reading the manufacturer's user and programming manuals. I work daily on PowerPC computers implementing low level OS routines and this book does a great job at helping me on using specific instructions. In fact, this material added to the (free) manufacturer manuals and Gary Kacmarcik's book is all one need to work intimately on this wonderful CPU. If you need something at a more generic level, buy J. Hennessey's book.