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From: chuck@pluto.Harris-ATD.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: New format of CACM
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Date: 7 May 91 14:27:04 GMT
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     I'm also unhappy about the new format, finding it inconsistent and 
difficult to read.

     I also have some complaints about the little News Bits articles in the
front.  This month, we got a brief description of Unicode, a 16-bit character
standard.  This is fine, but it was written for a complete computer neophyte.
I seem to recall the description as "a sequence of 16 zero and one values".
Come on!  Ever hear of the word "bit"?

     The first rule: Know Thy Audience.  We're computing professionals.  You
can use the big words with us!

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