The author offers his personal experiences as a teacher with humor and insight, providing stories and anecdotes gathered from years of working with students, parents, staff, and administrators.

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Product Description: This book explains how VI provides a new interface between applications and switched interconnect hardware. Just as Virtual Memory allowed personal computers to break through physical memory limitations, VI solves the long-standing problem of efficiently interfacing general-purpose computers to high-speed switched networks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)