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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte
Message-ID: <19499@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 23:53:00 GMT
References: <91059.184958CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu> <5667@tahoe.unr.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <5667@tahoe.unr.edu> tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker) writes:
>BYTE started out as an IBM only magazine and has been expanding thier 
>coverage of machines. 

Perhaps you're new to this industry?  BYTE started out long before there was
an IBM PC.  It may appear to the newcomer that they started out as an IBM
magazine and have been expanding, but that's simply what people have been
complaining about over the years -- BYTE never was PC only, but at a certain
point in BYTE's life it was awfully hard to tell this.

Personally, I think they're getting better.  Back in the 70s or early 80s,
BYTE was the place you went to read about computer science when you were
not quite a computer scientist.  Kind of like the way you can read about
mathematics, physics, etc. in Scientific American, at a reasonably detailed
level, without having to be a professional.  Though the articles were, in
many cases, of interest to professionals as well.  Most of the good stuff 
didn't center specifically on any platform or OS, unless the thrust of the
article was about that (eg, the Amiga Exec article, the one on the PICK
OS from long ago, etc).  While they still have some ways to go to get back
to that "golden age of BYTE", I have noticed a change for the better over the 
past 6-12 months.

>Juan Trevino


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