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- From: dvc@eagle.hr.att.com (David Van Cleef)
- Subject: Re: Oxford - Dictionaries
- In-Reply-To: nenaas@ulrik.uio.no's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:21:24 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan7.022358.17046@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <NENAAS.93Jan7142124@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:52:36 GMT
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- >>>>> On Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:21:24 GMT, nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas) said:
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- NN> In article <1993Jan7.022358.17046@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> ouij@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Luigi Perrotta) writes:
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- > I think a long time ago (circa 1990) I remembered
- > reading about a project out of university of waterloo
- > in which they were doing a comphresive effort to put
- > the complete oxford english dictionary into an
- > electronic format. Has this been done?
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- NN> Yes, the OED 2. edition is out. It is available from Oxford University Press.
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- NN> It is NOT cheap.
-
- Cheap is a relative term. It is about 1/3 of the cost of the paper edition.
-
- The first edition OED on CD, even with its clunky retrieval software,
- was an incredibly useful item for a writer friend of mine, and he
- considered it money well spent.
-
- Incidentally, setting that one up was fun. He had one of the first
- dozen of the first Phillips CD-ROM drives imported into the states.
- You know you're going to be having fun when you see serial numbers
- that low...
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