Re: XyWrite/Windows XPL

[Art Campbell artc@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> Nathan is right: BX (es 1) should kill the errors. Tyson's v3.55 book, "XyWrite
> Revealed", is the only one he wrote about XyWrite (to my knowledge).

He had one maybe .5 done on Signature, but when the XYQUEST/IBM deal fell
apart, so did the book deal. IBM had been intending Sig as their corporate
WP, so there were a number of books in the works due to IBM's marketing
muscle. When IBM decided to get out of software (that time), a few book
deals went into the ashcan. :-) In any case, there may be some proof
or unpublished manuscript copies around that IBM pre-released.

BTW, Tyson was also working for IBM, as a contractor/consultant on Sig,
doing quite a bit of macro/XPL stuff. I think I've still got a disk of
his from an early Sig beta version . . .

> ISBN 0-8306-3459-2. 
> Windcrest Books (Blue Ridge Summit, PA), 1990. Subsequently he produced tomes about Word
> and DeScribe. So much for old-fashioned brand loyalty.

Uh, Bob, I need to jump in here to Tyson's defense.

He never presented himself, as far as I know, as anything but an industrious
programmer who could write some. He happened to be specializing in WP,
but he is a professional writer; to be a pro, you have to write and you
have to write books that sell. You can't write about software that
doesn't sell because the books won't either. Ask me how I know. :-)

The origins of the term "free lance" date from the mercenaries
who fought in the crusades . . . and it's more true today than most
people realize. If you're a free lance writer, you have to be mercenary.
You can't afford brand loyalty if you want to eat.

Cheers,
Art

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