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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Byte Indexes (the saga continues)
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 17:21:59 EDT
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Once again I am hearing rumors of a mythical Byte Index that is or will
be available. I don't think it will be machine readable and probably
available as a separate document rather than in an issue of Byte. So
I have once again begun to think of a "home grown" data base of Byte
articles for personal computers. 

The simplest method might be to produce a form not unlike the message headers
that could be filled in for each article along the lines of
Title:
Author:
Magazine:
Issue:
Pages:
Processor Type(s):
Category: (could be Software, Hardware, Algorithms, etc)
SubCategory: (eg Data Base, Compiler, Tools, OS)
Abstract: (paragraph on article)

Any other suggestions? Organizing might be a bit difficult but it would be
fairly simple to write a translator from the form to your favorite data
base. The reason for the Magazine entry is obviously if this is successful
it might be possible on other magazines as well.

--Chuck

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