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- From: Robert D Hoberman <RHOBERMAN@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Mavericks
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- State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Stony Brook, NY 11794-3355
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- Robert Hoberman
- Comparative Studies Dept.
- 516-632-7462, -7460
- 04-Sep-1992 10:52am EDT
- FROM: RHOBERMAN
- TO: Tirzah Meacham ( _NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL )
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- SUBJECT: RE: Mavericks
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- NB4 arrived today, here, 40 miles from New York City. Eight 5 1/4 inch
- diskettes, including Lingua and Orbis. I added Ibid to my order at a later
- date, so I suppose I'll get it separately. I haven't looked at the files
- yet--could it be that Ibid is included? The pro-tem documentation enclosed is
- far more cheaply printed and bound than the NB3 documentation and doesn't
- include a full reference manual, but at a glance it looks adequate for a good
- start at serious work.
-
- As for the future, it seems to me that what we all should hope for is that NBI
- would be taken over by some better-capitalized company that would keep NB going
- as a specialty item, alongside its other products, and would advertise and
- promote it more vigorously. The present owners of NBI would probably get more
- in the sell-out than they're taking home now, presumably the programmers would
- be kept on, we'd get updates, and no one loses. The company that bought NBI
- out would get a superb product, a loyale clientele, and, I think, a large
- potential academic market.
-
- Bob
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