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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Review on workstations?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.224317.669@shaman.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 22:43:17 GMT
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In article <28300001@acf5.NYU.EDU> fink@acf5.NYU.EDU (Howard Fink) writes:
>The magazine Personal Workstation is devoted to the subject.

[Major flame on]

	Hah! THey *say* they are devoted to workstations. In reality
they are a glorified PC/MS-DOS magazine. Look at their content, all they
talk about is VGA, EISA, blah blah. Also what is their idea of a networking
OS?  MS-DOS or OS/2 with Novell. Give me a break. Their coverage of real
workstations or even personal workstations is minimal and of token value.
	I used to subscribe to MIPS before it became PW. Then MIPS became
bought out and became the sh*t it is now in the form of PW. I eventually
had to revoke my subscription, I was so disgusted.
	What can you say about a "Personal Workstation" magazine that
gives its e-mail address as:

	"On Usenet, send letters to uunet!pwmag!editors."

	On Usenet? Excuse me? Can I send them something via rn, perhaps?
Or should I use Pnews? I think they might mean Internet, but then again
they are giving an ancient format UUCP address. Hmm.... I wonder what the
technical competence of their editors *really* is.
	Oh, since I have a PW in front of me, this is the content of a 
"personal workstation" magazine: (Nov, 1990)
	
	38 -- Power Up (Cover Story)  [how to upgrade to i386 or i486)
	58 The Personal Portable Workstation [talk about PC Laptops, no
					Sony laptop Sparcs]
	70 You and Your ODT [Finally, an X.desktop article]
	81 Micronics: EISA vs ISA [see!]
	84 Securing the Netstation [talking about Compaq and Datamedia]
	92 Interacting with MetaDesign [Design program, some UNIX]
	97 Great Performs: Micronics 486 board
	101 Beyond DOS: The Unix and OS/2 solution
	

	Their editors make it *quite* clear that they are interested in
i386 and i486 solutions to personal workstations. Bleh is my answer. Bleh.

[ Flame off]

	For a so-so personal workstation magazine, read Unix World. It
too suffers from the gloss problem, but is still readable.

	- jiro nakamura

ps. I have no connection with PW other than I strongly dislike them. I
have no connection with UW other than I can bear to live with them.




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