Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!mcnc!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte Message-ID: <1991Mar1.022501.18594@ncsu.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 02:25:01 GMT References: <91059.184958CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 29 CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >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... > [it has overwhelming IBM coverage etc] Well, figure it out: probably a hundred PClone support companies send in news and review equipment each month, with pictures and so on. In addition, many of them advertise in BYTE. How many Amiga companies do either? In the US, there are (roughly - corrections welcome) 40 million PCs, 4 or 5 million Macs, and 0.5 million Amigas (and guess how many of those very likely are mostly game-oriented? dunno). Combine that ratio with the incoming news slant and Ami authors and reader interest stats and amount of $$ spent per owner, and the Amiga is probably over-covered in BYTE :-). So: write some articles, and send lots of nice <== letters saying how much you and the other thousand people in your office enjoyed the latest Amiga coverage! Ummm.. and come up with a laptop Amiga or Amiga clone or something else exciting along those lines. I mean, just what exactly is new for the Amiga? They've already covered the A3000 and Exec and the Toaster. Perhaps an article on all the new add-on gfx boards would be accepted, for instance. Go for it! best - kev