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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Has anyone considered making AUX available on CD-ROM?
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Date: 17 Feb 89 11:44:28 GMT
References: <90136@sun.uucp>
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In-reply-to: rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns)

In article <90136@sun.uucp>, rburns%master (Randy Burns) writes:
>Does any apple dealer have any intent to make AUX available on CD-ROM.

Good points and bad points.

Good =>
easy to include on-line documentation, with graphics, etc.
They could also include useful sources to public domain software,
like x windows, etc.


Bad=>
You need to copy the stuff over to a disk anyway.
You would need floppies for last minute changes.
Also, what does Apple do with 10,000 old copies of A/UX 1.0? :-)

At least the NeXT type disk is re-usable and writable

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