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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX/AmigaOS article in A/C Tech -- yech
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Date: 23 Apr 91 21:57:27 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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In article <7985@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:

>	Have you read the article "UNIX and the Amiga:  An Introduction to
>UNIX, for the Amiga Programmer, Part I" in Amazing Computing's Tech magazine,
>issue #2?

>	IMHO, this article is terrible.  It is riddled with errors and
>misconceptions about UNIX.  

I was under the impression that both Tech Journals, the Amazing and the 
AmigaWorld versions, would subject any submissions to some kind of expert
review committee.  Sounds like they screwed the pooch on that one, at least.
I was persuaded to write an article for the AmigaWorld version, and it made
me wonder if the original premise of these magazines would really last long,
especially with two of them launched at basically the same time.  A good
portion of the people capable of writing really hard core technical articles
are also generally overextended as it is.

In any case, any article full of errors would be inexcusable in Amazing or
AmigaWorld proper.  In these new tech journals, it's worse.  I haven't seen
either of them yet, but if such an article made me annoyed, I would probably
write a colorfully angry letter back to them.  

>| Dan Barrett, Department of Computer Science      Johns Hopkins University |


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