[geeks] OED Wins! ;^)

[Lionel Peterson]

Available on CD-ROM... Close enough?

Or, as a subscription-based service on-line...

Heck, if I had the dough, I'd get a copy...

That's something you keep in the family for generations (a form of
family bible)... Actual paper is better (IMHO, YMMV)

Lionel

--- "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > $995 buys a lot of dead trees! (but hey, shipping is free!)
> 
> Hopefully I'm not the only person who'd rather have it as a
> relational database than a pile of paper.  It'd be so much more
> useful if you could just query the OED from any $RDBMS-compatible
> program.



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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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