Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!R_Tim_Coslet
From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Byte Magazine flame from FIDOnet
Message-ID: <7040@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Jul 88 07:39:04 GMT
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In article <2211@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <6862@cup.portal.com>, R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com writes:
>> From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU , He writes:
>> >From:    Matthew Franckiewicz 
>> 	[_LONG_ story of problems with Byte Subscription, deleted]
>
>I have had no problems with Byte's subscription department. I *do* have
>problems with their ongoing transformation from a good hobbyist magazine
>to a glossy version of ComputerWorld for IBM-PCs and clones (and an occasional
>Macintosh)... but that's another issue.
I agree, I let my subscription to Dr. Dobb's Journal expire because they
quit being a "good hobbyist magazine" and went "Professional" (whatever
that means). I do see some unfortunate tendences in Byte to the same...

I sure would like to see some more good practical "theory" and "algorithm"
articles like Byte had in its early days (before 1980) (ex. the "My Dear Aunt
Sally" article on algebraic expression processing in the February 1976
Issue, Byte #6).

>-- 
>-- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva.
>--   U   Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null.
>-- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds".

					R. Tim Coslet

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