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I really like his books. A fun anecdote is that I had him as a college professor in the early 90's before I knew that he was a SciFi author.

Among other things, he taught me how to write pre-emptive task switching in 68k assembly language.

Fun times!

I liked his test structure: write "I don't know" for minimal credit opposed to wasting his time with a false paragraph. Also, a very prepared prof.

30 years ago, so I don't remember that part. But yeah, overall he was perhaps the best teacher I ever had.

Was he that assembly professor who was way to interesting to be just a professor? Had a similar one.

He was very good both at teaching and being interesting just in general.