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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
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Subject: Re: R.I.P BYTE
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Date: 4 Aug 88 16:06:26 GMT
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Has anyone else noticed in the "Letters to the editor" and other sections
of BYTE a certain tendency to print articles flattering to the IBMPC and
unflattering to all other machines, particularly non PC-compatibles?

Now I am an amiga owner, and of course the amiga is the most perfect machine in
the universe and all that partisan sh*t, but I just can't believe the cheap
shots Byte takes at the Amiga are purely unintentional.  In fact, during the
time the amiga was starting up, Byte was quite schizophrenic, with excellent
and complimentary technical articles, in the same issue with nasty editorial
jabs and letters to the editor containing incorrect, unchecked, unedited gripes
and whines with no rebuttal from Commodore.

Oh, and on the subject of editorial balance.  My favorite is the "OS/2 --
Multitasking At Last" theme we're seeing recently.  Maybe they don't know you
could multitask on a $200 machine (RadioShack CoCo) as much as four or five
years ago, or on an amiga three years ago, or run real UNIX (is SYSIII real?)
six years ago.  But WHY DON'T THEY KNOW?  Has not one of their editors ever
seen another computer than the IBMPC?

I admit it.  The only reason I subscribe to Byte is to read the ads and keep up
on the computer market and general industry stuff.  I read maybe five articles
a year.  But nowadays I can't even see ads for a wide variety of computers.  I
might as well give up.