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Subject: Re: The Dictionary... Not from Austin Code Works!!!
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Date: 3 Feb 88 02:17:41 GMT
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Reply-To: 164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Mark Schaffer)
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In article <4362@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> broehl@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes:
>In article <172@dolphy.UUCP> jmg@dolphy.UUCP (Jeffrey Greenberg) writes:
>>and I know that
>>the Oxford English Dictionary is being prepared for
>>cdrom.
>
>Actually, this is just speculation.  I work at the University of Waterloo,
>which is doing the software for the new "electronic" OED; there was a talk
>recently by one of the people involved in the project, and as far as he had
>heard there were no firm plans yet for a CD ROM version (though it would seem
>like a natural enough idea).
>

In this month's BYTE (vol 13. no. 2) in the Microbytes section describes a
version of the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM put out by Tri Star
publishing.  Apparently, it comes on 2 CD-ROM disks (using a whopping 800Meg).

 
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