Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Summary: bias toward Mac?  kinda hard to believe...
Keywords: BYTE, subscription, letter, fed up
Message-ID: <717@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 14:44:50 GMT
References: <6646@well.UUCP> <5479@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <5479@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) writes:
> Byte is a mass-market rag  
> pointed toward the majority, which is IBM/Mac.

They do run a certain amount of Mac-oriented articles, but I really think that
their main bias is toward IBM/Intel.  When the new ballyhooed BYTE benchmarks
show times for the infamous sieve program such that my CoCo 3, with its 1.8 MHz
6809, can run the sieve faster than all the 680x0 computers BYTE lists but the
Mac II, I am driven to the conclusion that their 68K Small C compiler has to
be truly horrible.  What is the reason for this?  I don't know, but the al-
ternatives that come to mind don't speak well for BYTE.

		James Jones

[The above is absolutely, positively my very own personal opinion.  Do organ-
izations have opinions?]