amsler@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Robert Amsler) (01/10/88)
Date: 30 November 1987, 10:54:07 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY%UTOREPAS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Sender: HUMANIST Discussion <HUMANIST%UTORONTO.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu> From: MCCARTY%UTOREPAS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu To: Robert Amsler <amsler@flash.bellcore.com> Contributor: May Katzen <MAY@VAX.LEICESTER.AC.UK> Subject: 1st edn. of the OED in CD-ROM and 2nd edn. in hardcopy I have received the following information from Tim Benbow of Oxford University Press about its publishing plans for the OED, in response to the query from Mr Wall. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Oxford University Press has announced that early in 1988 it will publish the original Oxford English Dictionary, 1884-1928, issued in twelve printed volumes, on two CD ROM disks. OUP states that this product is very user-friendly, much more so than other similar products on the market. These CD ROMs can run on a PC, XT or AT or an IBM clone with a 640 K memory with either a CGA or EGA device. A Hitachi, Philips, or Sony disk drive is required. The display monitor may be monochrome, but a colour monitor is preferable, as colour is used to distinguish different types of information. OUP also plan to make the original OED available on magnetic tape in a fully structured version with embedded codes, written in IBM format. In 1989, OUP will publish the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, which is the text of the original OED, plus supplements, plus new material which has been added recently. This will be published in a printed version of 20 volumes. The database containing this material will be made available in a number of electronic forms.