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- From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
- Subject: Re: Oxford - Dictionaries
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.141805.17828@nidat.sub.org>
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- Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
- References: <1993Jan7.142110.7204@zeus.ieee.org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:18:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.142110.7204@zeus.ieee.org> jbarth@ep.ieee.org (Jeremy
- Barth) writes:
- > > 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?
- >
- > I don't know about the U of W-loo, but Oxford itself
- > put the dictionary on CD-ROM years ago. In 1992 they
- > came out with a far better version.
- >
- > I'm not sure what the price is, but it's probably
- > going to be fairly high.
-
- Not that I want to advertise it or that I have any interest in selling the
- things, but on NeXT computers operating system there comes a Webster
- dictionary plus the complete works of William Shakespeare free of any
- charge (ok the whole thing is a bit pricey but you get a whole computer
- with it ;-) ). Spelling, thesaurus, citations and book quality formatted
- text. Want anything more?
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