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From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BYTE MAG (We don't even rate...)
Message-ID: <588@auscso.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 12:27:20 EST
Article-I.D.: auscso.588
Posted: Thu Oct 29 12:27:20 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 02:29:30 EST
References: <12346169899024@G.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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Summary: Cancel!

In article <12346169899024@G.BBN.COM> DREDICK@G.BBN.COM (Donald Redick) writes:
>
>  I'm FLAMING Mad.. As Usual, when I received my monthly issue of BYTE.
>
>  I have subscribed to BYTE for the last 10 years... It is a tradition
>  with me. But of late, (as if you haven't noticed) it has turned into
>  a mouthpiece for the IBM Clan..
>
>   Hey, If it had been the Lastest verion of OS/2 you betcha it would
>   get the biggest review possible.  But just look what we got..
>   
>   I guess we just don't rate a SPECIAL ISSUE... TOO INSIGNIFICANT...

That's pretty much how I saw it when I cancelled.  I did so shortly before they
published a survey of their user composition:  something like 90% IBM'ers, 
9% Maccers, 1% others.  Shortly after, their article content changed to reflect
this.  Their editorial policies have ALWAYS been strange: consider the number
of articles lauding the Amiga, a commercial failure, vs. the Mac.  Not to 
mention that ridiculous "benchmark" of the Mac II vs. the 386, which was pub-
lished at a time when even the IBM rags were really hyping the Mac II.

For a long time, I thought that Byte was actually attempting to play the role 
of a comprehensive journal on microcomputers (as you say, the early articles 
on Apple II's, TRS-80's, and homebrew S-100's seemed to support that). Then
it swung HEAVILY into "poor theory" and "IBM-oriented" articles. The lead time
for articles is ENORMOUS, often seeming to be on the order of six months.  
It's more worth it to subscribe to MacTutor for Mac technical info, and 
Communications/ACM for the more esoteric stuff. :-)








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