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[Actual date is
	Date: 4 Dec 87 04:14:33 GMT
-ds (moderator)]

Recently, I heard a hot industry rumour that Apple is going to be
releasing a CD-ROM system with their Unix clone on the Mac II (A/UX)
in January or February.

Well, that started me thinking about neat things I'd like to have on a
CD-ROM.  I came up with a fair number of interesting ones, but I
believe that the rest of the Usenet community would probably have some
even more interesting thoughts on the topic.  Consequently, I've
cross-posted this note to a large collection of relevant newsgroups to
ask the maximal number of people possible about `dream CD-ROM disks'
in a month or two.

What I'd like hear about is:

	What information would you find useful and helpful to have on
	CD-ROM disks accessible from your Unix system?  

All responses should be sent to a mailbox I've created just for this
purpose, and shall be summarized in a month or two.  

Send your dream disk contents to:

		...hplabs!atom!survey
or		
		survey%atom@hplabs.HP.COM

please.

For my part, my dream CD-ROM disks would contain:

	o. All the Unix manuals + tutorials on a disk.

	o. A dictionary, thesaurus, synonym/antonym listing, etc.

	o. BSD and AT&T manuals on the same disk, with the SVID.

	o. The ``usenet sources archive'', well indexed ($100?)

	o. All back issues of interesting digests (e.g. Risks, The
	   Software Engineering Digest, Computers and Society, etc)

	o. Some "C" reference guides (e.g. Kernighan and Ritchie, the
	   Stroustrup C++ guide, etc)

	o. Some Pascal, Fortran, LISP, Prolog, etc etc guides in a
	   similar format.

	o. Some good "Unix" reference guides.

	o. A library of useful graphic datasets (for example geographic
	   data, maps, etc)

	o. Standards guides, such as the CCITT documentation set.

	o. Phone books?  U.S.Government Office/Address listings?

	o. ???

Of course, all of these would be with a well-designed index and some
magical software that will make accessing them trivially easy.

I invite you all to toss your thoughts my way!

	Remember: DON'T followup this posting in news, MAIL replies!

						--- Dave Taylor

disclaimer: While I mention Apples' A/UX and such, since I have no
            real knowledge of the company nothing I say should be
            construed as any sort of implicit or explicit statement
            from Apple!  Yow!!