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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Nonsense in BYTE reader columns
Message-ID: <1328@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Jun-86 22:18:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1328
Posted: Sat Jun 21 22:18:45 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Jun-86 03:46:08 EDT
References: <8606141823.AA12695@pavepaws> <422@oscvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimm@homer.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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In article <422@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>In article <8606141823.AA12695@pavepaws> dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP writes:
>>
>>	Get a Load of this, everyone (May 1986 Byte, pg 18)
>>	...
>
>I saw this too, (as I'm sure many others did) and I was more than a little
>bit peeved, not so much at this guy because, well, idiots will be idiots
>(or rather, ignorants will be ignorant).  What really peeves me is that
>BYTE would let such garbage be printed in the first place... isn't that
>what technical editors are for?
>

I didn't see it first hand, but as I understand it the weeks following
the publication of this letter were filled with lambasting on BIX (the
BYTE bulletin board).  I'm sure BYTE has been wised up.

Let's hear it for the good guys (us) and let's let this letter drop.

				jimm