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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Summary: My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you,
	and I thank you.
Message-ID: <6756@well.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 08:13:43 GMT
References: <6646@well.UUCP> <5479@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <717@mcrware.UUCP> <606@unh.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: The FOX Network.  For people who just can't get enough bad TV.
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Quote: "Logic is wreath of pretty flowers, which smell *bad*."  -- Spock

[ Food. ]

	It would seem that my letter has stirred some degree of support,
which has been, to say the least, very heartwarming.  There are a few
additional comments I'd like to make.

	Someone made the comment that perhaps BYTE is being superceded by
things like USENET.  This tends to make a lot of sense.  Perhaps we've grown
too sophisiticated for magazines like BYTE, and should be subscribing to
CACM or something (assuming I know what CACM is).  "Realtime" information
systems such as USENET, Compu$erve, The $ource, et al are going to become
the wave of the future.  McGraw Hill has attempted to enter this arena with
BIX (BUX?), but is trying to impose old-world rules on it.  For all its
faults, BIX seems to earn them a lot of money.  And face it:  Fooling around
on-line is fun, so you can hardly fault the "editors" for hanging around on
it so much.  After all, they all have free accounts :-).

	Brad Templeton made the observation that, because I mentioned the
Amiga, the letter's credibility went down the toilet.  I thought I had
attempted to keep the Amiga proselytizing to a minimum and keep it in the
scope of the basic premises I was trying to impart, which is that BYTE has
lost its diversity, and is doing its subscribers a disservice by doing so.
I would consider BYTE's editors to be extremely shortsighted if they are
unable to see beyond the Amiga remarks.

>Remember when "pc" meant "personal computer" and not "IBM-PC or knockoff" ??
>Paul S. Sawyer              uunet!unh!unhtel!paul     paul@unhtel.UUCP

	Until the Pee-Cee came out, I always thought it stood for "printed
circuit".

	So what should I subscribe to now?  CACM?  Computer Graphics and
Applications?  NewsWeak?  :-)

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