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From: silverio@brahms.berkeley.edu (C J Silverio)
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Subject: Re: "develop" magazine
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Date: 2 Feb 90 23:09:17 GMT
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I wrote:
   Now if ONLY we could eliminate the delta document in Our Time.....

Dave Platt:
   Cosmic message... it's already being done.  The SpInside Mac stack
   on the Release Version of the Developer Helper CD (a.k.a. Phil&Dave's)
   has all five volumes of Inside Mac... merged into the appropriate order...
   with obsolete materials deleted, and lots of cross-references to the
   Tech Notes stack.  10 megs of searchable text and data!
   
   If you want to see this available to people other than Partners and
   Associates, phone or write Phil Ostron (the Operations Manager at APDA)
   and urge him to get this CD-ROM into the APDA catalog.  MAKE NOISE,
   PEOPLE!

Allright! That only leaves folding in the set of technotes that are
actually corrections to IM (as opposed to programming tricks,
compatibility notes, and sample code) to produce an up-to-date,
easy-to-use Inside Macintosh.

HEY APPLE:

If I were gonna be in charge of things, I'd take the spInside Mac,
fold in the appropriate "correctional" Tech Notes, and put it, along
with the other technote stack, the DTS Sample Code, and some form of
Inside Mac DA (or other Instant Reference -- I presume there's one
built into the Inside Mac stack) onto a CD-ROM. 

I'd update it quarterly, add release notes that describe what changed,
and sell subcriptions.

If I were faced with BUYING such a thing, I would be perfectly willing
to pay $100/yr for it. AND, I'd be down at the dealership TOMORROW to
get a CD-ROM player.

Then, at least I wouldn't have to pull my hair out trying to find
documentation and could free up 20% of my time for programming.

(And yes, I will write to Phil Ostron, as well as Louella Pizzuti,
editor of develop, to let them know how much I appreciate their
efforts.)