Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scwilk
From: scwilk@sdrc.UUCP (Ken_Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: byte loses another subscriber
Message-ID: <342@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 20:38:13 GMT
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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      Hello Net,  a Fellow worker has sent the folowing
letter at about the same time that Leo Schwab did, and
with his permission, I am posting...any comments please
post, he does not get news (poor guy).


Editor,

I recently received your August 1988 issue. I will not be 
renewing my subscription. Despite the special all-macintosh 
supplement the rest of the cover says what byte has become, a PC 
Week clone. There are reviews of IBM-pc clones and IBM-pc 
software. BYTE's subtitle "The Small Systems Journal" is gone. As 
little as two years ago BYTE still offered a fairly balanced 
coverage of all small computer systems. As an example, the column 
"Best of BIX" featured IBM-pc, Apple MacIntosh, Atari St and 
Commodore Amiga (my machine). This column is defunct. Instead we 
are fed the likes of Jerry Pournelle's Computing at Chaos Manor. 
While Mr. Pournelle's column is entertaining (who else could 
devote an article about how to install a modem without reading 
the manual), I don't believe it has a place in a serious journal 
(perhaps an April fools issue). Mr. Pournelle's article in the 
special all-macintosh supplement is about furniture. Do you 
really want to encourage your readers to try to install hardware 
and software without reading the manual? Do most readers care 
about furniture?

I am looking for a journal with regular, monthly, good techical 
articles about the Commodore Amiga, its hardware and software. Do 
you know of any?

Frank Glandorf