Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Byte fails to keep up. Message-ID: <14687@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 27 Sep 90 15:52:35 GMT References: <1990Sep26.011125.11753@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 31 In article wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: >Excerpts From Captions of netnews.comp.sys.next: >26-Sep-90 Byte fails to keep up. Roger B. Kirchner@umn-cs (385) >>How can Byte be so out of it? >A: By having a three month lead time... expect the Big NeXT issue >sometime in November/December. >neat. As the world of computing technology moves faster and faster, >Bytes lead time gets to be longer and longer. In BYTE's defense, they do attempt to offset lead times by working with manufacturer's who are interested, so that the preview of a particular machine hits the newsstands the same month that machine is announced. When we introduced the Amiga 3000 last April, we had BYTEs on hand with the cover story. This, of course, requires that you [a] have reasonable pre-production machines to show off to BYTE several months before the machine is officially announced, and [b] you trust BYTE not to leak anything out before you're ready. In general, though, there's no "need" for the coverage to lag the announcement by 3 months. And it's often to a manufacturer's advantage to get the machine in the magazine press at the same time that all the excitement generated by some kind of official announcement and newpaper articles is still going strong. >b.bum -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold -REM