Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!wfp
From: wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Which books on disc? (was Re: Hundreds of ...)
Message-ID: <7562@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 07:48:42 GMT
References: <26657@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <544@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips)
Organization: Big Apple Home for the Thoroughly Confused
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In article <544@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:

>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.

It's already being advertised in _English Today_ magazine (published by
Cambridge University Press), and it was reviewed in the July issue of
that quarterly.  The US price is approximately $1,200.00.

Oh, yes -- it doesn't include the Supplement(s?).

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