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- From: Chuck.Phillips@FtCollins.NCR.COM (Chuck.Phillips)
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- > On 24 Aug 90 05:49:57 GMT, khb@Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) said:
- Keith> In the X3 world the reason is painfully clear, money. X3 relies on the
- Keith> revenues generated by selling copies of the standard to finance its
- Keith> operations (this information is a fallout of numerous arguments
- Keith> between x3j3 members and x3; I cannot vouch that it is true, but it
- Keith> was/is certainly the reason copies of the x3j3 draft are ftpable)
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- Then how about making periodic releases of all ANSI (IEEE, etc.) standards
- and current drafts on CD ROMs? Of couse, then we'd have to create a new
- committee to define the cross index and search/retrieval data interface. ;^)
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- Seriously, this would allow us to create platform independent CD ROMs.
- Machine dependent retrieval software often is included on CD ROMS due to
- lack of said standards.
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- Cheers,
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