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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Lowly programmers vs. 7.0
Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.ew4dos@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 05:17:34 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <1991May6.141751.25444@potomac.ads.com> you write:
> 
> >Well, I picked up a paperback copy of Inside Macintosh Volume VI yesterday
> >at a local bookstore for $39.95, which isn't too bad for a book that's almost
> >two and a half inches thick....
> 
> Hmmm .. another questions springs to mind.  I hear that there's going
> to be an Inside Mac version II which is a cleaned up version of all
> the Inside Mac volumes.  Any idea whether or not this is true and if
> it is true when will this new set be available?


Someday.  I attended a focus group that a market reseearch firm did for 
Apple to see what a random collection of 12 programmers thought of IM.  
I assume there where other groups too.

Most of what I could figure out they where planning was a nice improvement
over the current manuals.

I have no idea when it might come out though

-- michaels

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