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From: john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. Byte
Message-ID: <827@jclyde.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 03:00:30 GMT
References: <402@mfgfoc.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.)
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In article <402@mfgfoc.UUCP> exodus@mfgfoc.UUCP (Greg Onufer) writes:
>Has anybody seen the latest issue of Byte?  I was searching long and hard
>for some redeeming social value in that magazine the other night when I
>started to glance through Pournelle's column....  and the bastard basically
>said that Un*x was good for nothing except poorly written multi-user 
>databases.   His biggest complaint was that Un*x couldn't run a lot of his
>MS-DOS applications well enough (two products were mentioned, I think).
>
>Did he mention that Un*x doesn't do graphics or color??  I seem to recall
>something about that but I cannot remember.

I've waited awhile before flaming BYTE, but here goes.  I used to love reading
Pournelle's column, it was the highlight of my reading the magazine.  That
love affair ended sometime early this year or late last year, due to some
Pournelle bashing on the net.  At first I bristled at somebody flaming Jerry,
but I got to thinking.  Ever since, when I read his column I usually think
what a TWIT this guy is.  He wouldn't know a decent operating system if it
bit him on the ass.

I have already made my decision to let my subscription lapse.  I get my PC
stuff out of PC Magazine (which has its share of jerk-off contributors, read
that as Dvorak), but on whole it keeps me abreast of the PC world and I 
*expect* it to be Messy-DOS heavy.

My favorite computer mag now is Unix World.  Oh well...  the ramblings of
another irate Byte reader (soon to be former).  Hey Pournelle, stick it in
your ear (and you too Dvorak) :-).  Now I can't wait to get out of school
and earn some money so I can retire this 286 box to running games and buy
a *real* system :-).
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