On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Paul Pennington wrote: As the author of the index explained to me in private e-mail, he started doing the index commercially in 1988, and as he wanted to get paid to do it, he decided to start in January 1982 since he needed to get something going right away and Jan/82 is around the start of the IBM PC, so it would be commercially relevant as well. At any rate, I've proposed that we turn this into an open source type project and are discussing it now. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

Michael Nadeau wrote: Probably because most of their articles are tied to Windows, and there are plenty of other Windows magazines out there to advertise in. There's just so many "MFC wrapper class for ..." articles that you can read before it becomes quite boring, expecially if you don't program for Windows.