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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 and BYTE magazine
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.165229.718@bushido.uucp>
Date: 30 Jul 90 16:52:29 GMT
References: <334@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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In article <334@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> s8825698@mqcomp (Daniel Bielik) writes:
>Has anyone noticed how most new, revolutionary computers (and some 
>not-so-revolutionary ones) get scores of pages of technical data and
>performance information written about them in BYTE magazine, yet the MAY, 1990
>edition with the AMIGA3000 as the cover story has 3 pages of information
>regarding this new machine.
>
>I am really surprised, considering way back in 1985 BYTE had a magnificent
>coverage of the Amiga1000 (then just the Amiga) and the way that it throws
>accolades at boring old IBM compatibles (no they haven't yet exhausted ways
>of using this ancient technology).  Why only 3 pages?  Can someone from BYTE
>possibly answer this for me?
>
>Or possibly is there a better review coming up in future editions of BYTE, in
>which case I would ask the question "Why did BYTE make this minimal story their
>Cover Story?".
>
>Danny Bielik.
>3RD year Computing student
>Macquarie University
>Sydney, Australia.

Personally, calling it a MAINSTREAM computer on the cover was good enough
for me :-)

Thanks,
donb