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From: dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New Digital Libraries/CD-ROM Readers???
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.145306.19902@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 12 Jun 90 14:53:06 GMT
Reply-To: dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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In article <2896@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>
>Anyone heard of any companies planning to 
>
>(a) Release new additions to the NeXT Digital Library
>    (e.g. encyclopedia, atlas, maps, books, back issues of magazines,
>     back issues of newspapers, financial databases,
>     Science Citation Index, Index Medicus, Engineering
>     Abstracts, Math Reviews, etc, etc)
>
>(b) Make a CD-ROM reader for the NeXT

I agree with you on the importance of this. Unfortunately I don't
know of anything definite.  However, I was told by a NeXT rep. that
CD-ROM is definitely in the works, although I wasn't told who was
working on it, or when it would be available.  

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David Carpenter            dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP                    
St. Joseph's University    dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu
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