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From: dent@unocss.unomaha.edu (dent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System-based dictionary...
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Date: 17 Jul 90 09:29:40 GMT
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declan@portia.Stanford.EDU (Declan McCullagh) writes:
> Perhaps Apple could take this not-so-subtle hint and include more "standard
> equipment."  Of course, this complete graphics-included Websters on the NeXT
> takes up quite a bit of space (~40 Megs) so you'd have to make some
> tradeoffs somewhere; I don't think it would quite fit on a 1.4 MB floppy...

But it'd fit just fine on a 128 Meg 3.5" read/write optical floppy disk... :-)

But seriously, I think that whether we like it or not, a dictionary will become
standard System Software, perhaps in System 7.5..?


-/ Dave Caplinger /---------------------------------------------------------
  President, Student Chapter of ACM at the University of Nebraska at Omaha 
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