mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) (06/06/91)
Yes, Apple is busily working on Inside Macintosh, Second Edition--a
complete rewrite and cleanup of all 6 volumes of Inside Macintosh. Yes,
Apple will be providing Second Edition electronically on CD-ROM. Yes,
you can help Apple design the best electronic version of IM, 2nd Ed
possible.
Please see the following survey from Developer Technical Publications
and if you are an IM user who wants to influence its design, take the
time to complete it and return it before June 18, 1991.
Please do NOT send surveys to my address. Please DO send surveys and
comments (including comments on the book version) to the following
address: DEV.TECH.PUB@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM. You can also send errata
in the current IM series to this address.
Thanks in advance for your help to make Inside Macintosh, Second Edition
a developers best friend...
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Inside Macintosh Second Edition, Online: Survey for developers
Dear Developer,
We are preparing to put Inside Macintosh Second Edition online.
To make sure our efforts include your input, we would greatly
appreciate your taking some time out to answer this questionnaire.
This way we can promise that your wishes will be incorporated into
the design of this system.
We will be collecting responses from 6/4 through 6/18. Please
direct your questions and/or responses to:
DEV.TECH.PUB@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM
Many thanks,
Developer Technical Publications,
The InterActive Design Group
Apple Computer, Inc.
______________________________________________________________________
To check a response, type an "X" within the square bracket : [X]
1) How many years have you been programming for the Macintosh ?
[ ] About 1 year
[ ] Between 2 to 3 years
[ ] Between 3 to 5 years
[ ] More than 5 years
2) What is your primary development environment ?
[ ] Think Pascal
[ ] Think C
[ ] MPW C
[ ] MPW C++
[ ] MPW Pascal
[ ] MPW Object Pascal
[ ] Other (list) __________________________
3) Do you use MacApp ?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
4) What are you currently using for online documentation ? If you
respond with "none" you may proceed to question # 7.
[ ] Inside Mac DA
[ ] Mac Manual DA
[ ] Mouser
[ ] 411
[ ] Developer Technical Answers (AppleLink)
[ ] D e v e l o p
[ ] SpInside Mac
[ ] Inside Macintosh Volume VI, Online
[ ] Inside Macintosh, Online
[ ] None
[ ] Other (list) __________________________
5) How was the online documentation helpful ?
6) In what way did the online documentation fail you ?
7) Were you aware that Inside Macintosh Volume VI, Online is currently
available on the Developer CD (it will soon be available on the d e v e l o p
CD-ROM as well)?
[ ] Yes, and I have not used it.
[ ] Yes, and I have used it.
[ ] No
8) Would you find a one-to-one correlation of screen to printed
hard-copy page an important design implementation ?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
9) If you answered "yes" to the above, please state why.
10) How much RAM would you allocate for an online technical reference
application ?
11) What is your current disk space configuration ?
12) How many monitors do you use ?
[ ] One
[ ] more than one
13) Does your monitor/s use color or black and white ?
[ ] color
[ ] black and white
14) What kind of find/search mechanisms would you like to see implemented ?
15) Please describe typical example/s of the kinds of questions you
would like to see answered by the online system.
16) List what you would like to see in a future online implementation
of Inside Macintosh Second Edition (Here's your chance !!)
Please direct your questions and/or your responses to :
DEV.TECH.PUB@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM
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