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From: CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Amiga coverage in Byte
Message-ID: <91059.184958CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 91 23:49:58 GMT
Organization: Penn State Campus Crusade for Cable
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The latest issue of Byte contains a letter that states that the recent lack of
Amiga coverage shows a blatant disreguard for the Amiga which borders on
jealousy.  The reply Byte had was that it had either printed articles on, or
mentioned the Amiga 57 times in the past year, and stated that they also
mentioned the lead the Amiga has in SCSI performance.
              BUT...
                    In the same magazine the Amiga is only seen twice:
      Once in this letter (Byte probably counts this as ten times, since the
         name itself was mentioned this many times), and
      There was a review of a SCSI card in the _What's New?_ section.

   There was no other mention of the Amiga in this entire 300+ page issue!

                     In addition:

      A review of a multimedia product (software, I believe), for the IBM
actually stated that the product was slow, and the interface exceedingly poor.
The reviewer's conclusion was, "If this is the best IBM animation product
produced, my money's on Apple."

       Apple?  An article about an IBM animation program, and he compares it to
 _Apple's_ animation!!?

                   Byte hypes itself as an industry-wide magazine, but is
                  99.99834% IBM magazine.
 Actually there was only one article on the Mac in the magazine, and none on
 any other systems besides IBM (None on the NeXT, Atari STs, Sun Workstations,
 etc.).  There was a nice big ad from Sun though.  But not one Commodore ad.
 This is where Commodore ads aimed at the business market would do well.
 Now I know why Sun has done so well.  I'll admit that although relatively
 high priced, they do their jobs efficiently (Well, there was a review of a
 Sparcstation, too).

          Byte is not an 'industry-wide computer publication'.  Quite the
          opposite, it is an 'IBM standard industry publication, with one or
          two articles/product reviews for other systems sprinkled
          here-and-there for good measure'.

          There are plenty of products for other systems that are better than
          the ones reviewed in Byte, but for some reason Byte reserves coverage
          for IBM products alone. Unless it is a completely new computer system
          or something as important as the Video Toaster, Byte doesn't cover
          other systems at all.


                  Chris Winward
            userid CXW148 on psuvm.psu.edu

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