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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Inside Mac
Message-ID: <3f64757b.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 88 21:14:00 GMT
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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  How does this sound?
  Apple can set up anonymous FTP at Apple.Com, and chop Inside Mac into
little sections, and put them up for grabs for anyone who has access to the
net.  Since almost everyone and his brother can get onto a network these days,
I don't see this as a big problem.
  Then, we can grab whichever sections we need.  No more trying to remember
which chapter deals with the Slot Manager, or which volume talks about the
Memory Manager.
  This also effectively solves the debate about whether Inside Mac should be
distributed as loose leaf or bound.  Once we download it, we can stick it
in a binder, or have it bound at the nearest Kinko's Copiers.
  We also wouldn't have to worry about everyone having different versions. 
Since the sections would be coming from one source, namely Apple, anybody
who wants to make it in the Macintosh community will keep updated versions of
whatever sections they need.
  Apple of course, would pull outdated versions off, and replace them with
newer versions as necessary.
  I realize that there ARE some people who don't have access to a computer
on the net.  For those few, Apple can continue marketing Inside Macintosh
in its current incarnation, and THAT will keep Apple happy, since it gives
them a profit margin that anonymous FTP wouldn't.  ;)
  And since those people outside of netland don't have access to the net,
they don't realize that this whole debate has been raging on for who knows
how long, and wouldn't miss a thing!  (What they don't know won't hurt them...)
  
  So how about it, Apple?  I can see this as a great way to get a very large
amount of beta testers, too, for newer systems and whatnot if you don't
limit this anonymous FTP idea to just Inside Mac!

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