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From: hal@cornell.UUCP
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Subject: Re: NOED (New Oxford English Dictionary)
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 18:41:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 18:41:04 1984
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There was an article in Datamation within the last couple of months about
the New OED project.  I just skimmed it and don't remember the details,
but there was a fair amount of technical info.  I also recall that IBM
supplied the computers, which was somewhat embarrassing since it would be
a bit better for national pride if ICL had won the contract.  The project
apparently aims to make a machine-readable OED available to scholars as
well as just producing a new revision.

Hal Perkins                         UUCP: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal
Cornell Computer Science            ARPA: hal@cornell  BITNET: hal@crnlcs