From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS!
Date: 1997/10/30
Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <639q3n$gbc@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 637e34$5u6@sun04.tfh-berlin.de
Debora Weber-Wulff (weberwu@compute.tfh-berlin.de) wrote:
: Now that's the way to promote a language! We are teaching Ada in
: all three computer-related degree programs as the first language.
: This semester we have more than 160 students beginning their
: studies.
: A colleague discovered that the company CCI in Meppen, Germany would
: send free copies of the Ada Tour 2.0 i (including the Lovelace
: tutorial, a collection of compilers and a pile of documentation)
: to anyone who asked. So we asked, and we promptly found big boxes
: of CDs waiting for us in the departmental offices.
You may also be interested in a CD produced by myself at Brighton.
It's not free, since we have to cover production costs, but it's
as cheap as I could make it (UKP 3.00 a copy, falling in stages to
1.20 a copy in quantities of 1000). We have however managed to give
away 1500 copies to educational institutions thanks to sponsorship
from GEC-Marconi and Pavilion Internet.
The CD is a complete website-on-a-CD, based on a preinstalled copy
of Netscape Navigator. It includes GNAT 3.07 for DOS, 3.09 for 95/NT
(the CD was produced before 3.10 came out :-( ), 3.09 for Linux (as
well as a complete copy of Linux to go with it), ASIS, various libraries
and development tools, Lovelace, the RM95, Rationale, Style Guide and FAQs.
It also includes compilers, tutorials and documentation for about 20 other
languages, a copy of the Free Online Dictionary of Computing with over
10000 entries, and lots more. The whole thing (all 650M of it) is freely
available on the web at http://burks.bton.ac.uk -- have a look!
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-29 0:00 Three cheers for free CD-ROMS! Debora Weber-Wulff
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1997-10-30 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-11-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Lynch
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1997-11-18 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-11-18 0:00 ` John English
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