Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000 Message-ID: <1323@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Sep-86 12:38:23 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.1323 Posted: Mon Sep 1 12:38:23 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Sep-86 18:17:28 EDT References: <8608292114.AA18102@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <679@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto Lines: 60 Summary: More to it In article <679@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >In article <8608292114.AA18102@cory.Berkeley.EDU> you write: >> "Originally planning for a separate issue of the magazine, >> we put together a series of articles exploring the MC68000 >> and many of the machines it powers. Those articles make up >> this month's theme section and the continuing coverage of the >> MC68000 that will appear in our Features section over the next >> several months." >> -G. Michael Vose, Sen. Tech editor >> themes. >> (BYTE september 86 v11-n9) >> >> Well, you can't have everything. Seems strange that the Themes >> editor would say something like that (especially the last line).. >> Looks like the policy decision caused some disention at BYTE. >> I don't see any 'disention' at all. The point is that 68K coverage is going to be strongly represented in future issues of Byte. This was in my own mind much more important that the Special Issue. I never thought the Special Issue was such a wonderful idea in the first place. If monthly cover- age of the 68K world was going to be negligible on a monthly basis, then why should I or anyone primarily interested in 68K technology subscribe to Byte? It would have been cheaper to buy the special issue and ignore the general monthly issues. The Byte Magazine which we will see in the coming year will be (just as the last year's Byte Magazine has been so far) more worth your subscription dollar than the Byte of the 2-3 years previous from this standpoint. If you have doubts, then start looking back over the magazine from about 1981 onward and add up the column inches and look at the topics covered. > > >You can probably translate that as: > >We were planning on doing a special 68000 issue, but our advertising people >couldn't sell enough space in a 68000 only issue to justify the expense... > >... just a guess, but Byte is anything but non-profit... >-- >Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite) I don't think you should read that into the choice. Oh, I expect it *may* have been a factor, but there was likely much more to it. I think that the Special Issues approach wasn't such a wonderful idea in any context. I barely browsed through my IBM-PC Special Issues. I certainly would not have bought one off-the-shelf. Would the IBM special issues have influenced my subscrip- tion? Only negatively. If you get the impression that I would be happy to see Byte drop the special issues completely, you wouldn't be far wrong. Exactly what is the point of Byte as a *monthly* magazine? If the features don't fill the role, then why not just start a smaller quarterly magazine for special topics? -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura (416) 652-3880