Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!jpd
From: jpd@etive.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Keywords: BYTE, subscription, letter, fed up
Message-ID: <609@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Aug 88 13:42:02 GMT
References: <6646@well.UUCP> <6807@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpd@itspna.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish)
Organization: Concurrent Supercomputer Project, EUCS, Edinburgh University
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In article <6807@bcsaic.UUCP> randy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves) writes:
>In article <6646@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>[Stuff about how bad BYTE has become these days]

The problem is by no means restricted to BYTE. I recently found a copy of a
UK magazine called "Practical Computing" in a coffee room, and picked it up to
have a look. This is a magazine I remember fondly from 6 or 7 years ago, when
it was full of articles with a reasonably technical micro-type content. I
should have been warned by the fact that it now has, printed in small letters
on the cover underneath "Practical Computing", a banner reading "for Corporate
Decision Makers". And sure enough, corporate decision makers are the people
who would read this magazine now. Sigh.

                                                     -- Paul.
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