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Re: [docbook] Re: Free Shared Glossart Database of Computing Terms
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:27, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Sean Wheller <sean@enbaya.co.za> was heard to say:
> | Huge dude. Simply brilliant!!! Wish you could see the smile on my face.
> |
> | Now I looks for somting like dis, dats sans da lingo.
>
> Years ago. Uhm, 1995 maybe (goodness gracious, that's a decade ago
> now!) O'Reilly produced a dictionary of computer terms. I seem to
> recall that when it fell out of print the author's were going to make
> it available in some open form. If it can be found, it might be a
> start. I'm pretty sure it all got converted to DocBook at some point.
Now dat's what I'm a talk'in about.
If such a resource was publically available I think it would be widely used
and possibly contributed to.
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Sean Wheller
sean@enbaya.co.za
http://www.enbaya.co.za