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- From: wave@media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Book on NeXTSTEP Programming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.214413.16385@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec8.213726.18975@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec18.022030.15170@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:44:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.022030.15170@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec8.213726.18975@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- >>spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
- >>> > NeXTSTEP Programming -- STEP ONE: Object-Oriented Appcliations
- >>> > Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney
- >>> > Hardbound, 664 pages, includes DOS diskette
- >>> > ISBN: 0-387-97884-4
- >>>
- >>> Do you suppose they _really_ give you a DOS diskette with it? :-)
- >>
- >>Yes, they do, and for good reason. When they had to commit to a disk
- >>format, it was not yet known whether or not NS486 would read NeXT
- >>formatted diskettes. (It will.)
- >>
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- It's also probably infinitely easier (and cheaper) to get DOS disks
- duplicated than NeXT format ones. When you want to get a few thousand
- books out, I'm sure that was a mitigating factor.
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