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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
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Date: 14 Mar 90 21:08:35 GMT
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Inside Mac is chock full of information -- a good deal of it outdated,
obscure, or just flat-out wrong.  It's nice that we have Tech Notes to
clear things up for us, but I don't like having to dig through the
indices for five volumes of IM as well as the TN index itself every
time I want to find out more about a Manager, or a technique, or so
forth.

Does Apple ever plan to rewrite Inside Macintosh?  It would be Real
Nice if the current set of five volumes were to be completely
revamped, removing all of the old information, adding compilations of
the new stuff from the Tech Notes, and expanding on all of that with
examples, examples, and even a few examples.  I'd be ecstatic if this
New, Improved Inside Macintosh were to be put into a HyperCard stack
-- better yet, a stack on a CD-ROM -- so that we could actually USE a
Mac to get at it.

I have a bad feeling that all they're going to do when System Seven
comes out is to add a Volume Six to what they've already got, and
throw a whole lotta new Tech Notes at us.  However, there's always the
chance that sanity will prevail, and they'll choose to update.

I can already hear the cries now: You *can't* rewrite IM!  All my
notes refer to page numbers [or section numbers, or nonesuch] in the
books!"  If you're silly enough to reference everything by page
number, then you should be programming in BASIC.

While I'm on the subject, has there ever been a list compiled of all
the known typos and misteaks in Inside Macintosh?  And if so, is that
list available on the net anywhere?

I think I'll go reread the description of the Sound Manager from my
copy of IM vol's I-III right now.  (And we wonder why people can't
seem to be upwardly compatible with new Macs!)

     << Brian >>
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