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From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Thu, 4-Aug-88 20:20:28 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Aug4.202028.17290@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. A. W. Constulting
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Summary: BYTE hides in BIX
References: <6646@well.UUCP> <342@eurtrx.UUCP> <3784@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <1903@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods)

In article <1903@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>If you people really want to make this point, you ought to be discussing
>it in BIX, where the people who matter will be reading it, rather than
>here.

That's just the point.  They igonre the rest of the world and hide in
their little hole.  It (BYTE) is no longer the "small systems journal",
but the "intel-based PC journal"

BIX is a tremendous rip-off.  Compuserve provides a better service for
the PC world, and Usenet is better (and non-commercial) for us
(Unixites).  The only problem is that the commercial ones won't admit
the others exist.  You can probably still pay to download Usenet sources
from BIX!  I can even remember discussions in the Unix forums that
included articles from Usenet, that some generous fool(s) paid to upload.

>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473


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						Greg Woods.

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