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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Ed
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Date: 4 Aug 88 01:30:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Aug  3 20:30:00 1988


I think BYTE's glory days were when they did theme issues, the
"SmallTalk" issue being one of the most famous.  I always think of
BYTE magazine as being like IEEE Computer for the general public --
many intriguing surveys and somewhat ambitious hardware & software
projects.  It's especially fun to take something enigmatic to many
people (like a compiler), and try to show just how easy it is to write
a simple one.

Lately, BYTE's hardware-review-hyping covers have put it in the same
class as PC Magazine.  I gave up my subscription in 1980, after BYTE
took its first nosedive.  Now BYTE is in the midst of a second nosedive.


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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