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special thanks for the production of this edition to Richard Pitt who
proofread, typeset, proofread, typeset and proofread this book to get it out
on time and Scott Buckham, who came down to help when he could have
been tobogganing with his family.
This is our
second year using Ventura Publisher. For Aficionados, the book was originally
written in Scripsit 16 on a Tandy 6000 XENIX computer. It was then converted
to an ASCII file, transferred to a Monolithic Micro frame 80386 based system,
and edited for 1990 using SCO Lyrix V6.0. The intent was to run Ventura on
this new computer using SCO UNIX and SCO VPIX which allows Ventura to run on
a XENIX/UNIX system. Ventura impacts the system too much for the other users
on it, so instead it was put onto a Televideo '386/16 with a Wyse 700 high
resolution monitor, and text was fed to it by 'sneaker-net' (run a diskette
back and forth from one system to the other). It was then printed IN HOUSE on
a Brother laser printer which was also purchased for the project. Most of the
Ventura codes were put in on the multi-user system in the ASCII files and run
straight off on the Ventura system.
Now that the
system is working, it has been possible to have someone show up with a 20
chapter book, hand a chapter to each of several typists, on the multi-user
system, and have the book produced ready for printing that afternoon.
David Ingram
January 18, 1991
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