[msie]

This is old material, right? Or is Knuth publishing a new fascicle?

[sp332]

Volume 2, third edition came out in 1997 http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html

[tjr]

This is old material, from Volume 2. What's new is the recently-published electronic editions, and, I guess, publishing some excerpts in online article form, like this one here.

[krazydad]

...and the reference to rap music.