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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!auvm!psuvm!wvnvm!jay
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:48:23 EDT
- From: James Justice <JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Message-ID: <92238.124823JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM
- References: <IBM-MAIN%92082416152551@RUTVM1.BITNET> <BtIos8.M2s@rice.edu>
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- In article <BtIos8.M2s@rice.edu>, schafer@is.rice.edu (Richard Alan Schafer)
- says:
- >
- >One thing that should be pointed out is that IBM is now shipping on every
- >new CDROM of this sort copies of both BookManager/Read-DOS and OS/2, so you
- >will *not* need anything extra to read them at your PC. (Nick, that's another
- >possible point for your argument about making BookManager/Read-VM supplied
- >with CMS, I suppose.)
- >
- >One of the CDROM collections people should be aware of is the "Starter
- >Collection" which is 4 CDs with just about every book IBM has ever put into
- >softcopy format, according to the guy I talked to at SHARE who had put the
- >collection together. Couple that (at $250) with the fact that IBM will ship
- >a free CDROM with every new product release, and the cost of your IBM library
- >has just *dramatically* gone down. Outside of older manuals which will
- >probably never get updated and hence put on CD, from now on, CD is IBM's
- >*preferred* means for distributing the books.
-
- I wonder if you can access these CDs via NFS support in IBM's OS/2 CP/IP? If
- you could, I could get one CD reader and give access to CD doc to my whole
- IBM system programmer team.
- Does anyone know the answer?
-