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From: doug@edge.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fairchild Clipper performance? (really: myths & magazines)
Message-ID: <989@edge.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 15:45:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 15:45:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 05:53:15 EST
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Organization: Edge Computer Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ
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Summary: Magazines

>0) At the rate of speed this business moves, writers and editors
>are hard-pressed to keep up, even when they try very hard.

More correctly, that should read, "At the rate of speed this business
produces new product announcements and other marketing hype..."

>4) Regarding performance claims, perhaps letters can encourage magazines
>to at least follow a few simple rules and answer a few questions:

Not likely.  With only a few exceptions, magazines are simply a promotional
tool.  (This is true of most fields, not just computers).  It is usually
against editorial policy to publish any unfavorable information about any
company/product which is, or could become, a subscriber.

Any magazine which is provided "free to qualified subscribers" is going to
be a "puff piece publisher".  Don't expect otherwise.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Edge Computer Corp., Scottsdale, AZ -- ihnp4!oliveb!edge!doug