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From: bc@modernlvr.sgi.com (Bill Coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
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Date: 22 Mar 90 16:58:55 GMT
References: <14532@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <7202@goofy.Apple.COM>
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|In article <14532@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU 
|(Brian Kendig) writes:
|> ...It would be Real
|> Nice if the current set of five volumes were to be completely
|> revamped, removing all of the old information, adding compilations of
|> the new stuff from the Tech Notes, and expanding on all of that with
|> examples, examples, and even a few examples.  I'd be ecstatic if this
|> New, Improved Inside Macintosh were to be put into a HyperCard stack
|> -- better yet, a stack on a CD-ROM -- so that we could actually USE a
|> Mac to get at it.

casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
|It's been done!  "Phil & Dave's Excellent CD," available to developers 
|(tell APDA you want it from them) contains "SpInside Mac" -- all of IM, 
|with the obsolete information removed, in a stack, plus the Tech Notes 
|stack, with buttons linking each part of IM to the relevant tech notes.  
|No expanded information or examples, though, because the goal was to get 
|it out quickly.

Before anyone gets too bent out of shape about not being able to get
vital programmers' info from Apple since APDA has decided the info
isn't "good" enough, let me point out just exactly what Mr Casseres
was saying. (I've only played with SpInside Mac for a few hours, so I
might not be fully correct. If so, I welcome your corrections.)

SpInside Mac is a stack which contains the text of IM I-V, *minus*
such obviously out-of-date sections as the MFS chapter of IM II. It
also contains pointers between IM and TechNotes and Developer Q&A
notes.

It is, therefore, virtually identical to the paper IM. It doesn't have
any revisions to speak of, since no text was really rewritten.

I'm glad Apple has undertaken the task of making an on-line reference.
It will obviously be of great value when they finish.

Can someone tell me what ELSE is on Phil & Dave's CD, especially what
is of interest to a meat'n'potatoes programmer?

bc
(whose only connection to SGI is that his girlfriend works there)