Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Which books on disc? (was Re: Hundreds of ...)
Summary: electronic OED is not too far off
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Date: 9 Nov 88 15:15:12 GMT
References: <26657@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <26657@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes:
>   Reference works are a different kind of publishing, more amenable
> to going electronic.  Personally, I want an electronic copy of
> the OED.  The four-point type in my compressed edition gets a bit
> hard on the eyes.

There is a project at the University of Waterloo (just down the road) in
conjunction with the Oxford people which is bringing the OED into the
electronic age. I understand they have the text online, and I've seen
demos of the software they've written to access it. It's very nice indeed.
Sounds like it's just the sort of thing the NeXT could handle very well.
I wonder if NeXT and OED have gotten together yet.
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