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From: slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. Byte
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Date: 8 Sep 88 15:23:12 GMT
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Reply-To: slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher)
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>When will the magazine be available on-line?  You _must_ be using WPs, probably

>get most of your articles electronically (don't you?), probably send it to the
>printers electronically?  Why not post it, too?   The discussion here should
>have convinced you that there is interest.

I don't know if the whole magazine will ever be on line.  There has been
talk about putting the reviews on line.  For as long as I've been there
(2 years), there has been talk of an Infoworld bulletin board; *yesterday*
someone was put in charge of that project, so we may see it in our lifetimes.

Actually, we don't use PCs for word processing; we use a Vax with a system
called Atex, designed for journalists.  We have these big ugly clunky terminals
but they're wonderful for our work.  But it means there's all sorts of weird
characters and stuff in there to indicate headlines, etc. (It's only semi-
WYSIWYG.)

I believe you when you say there's interest in posting it.  However, I'm the
only one, as far as I can tell, at Infoworld who's really into bulletin boards
and so on.  (I'm almost positive I'm the only one on the net.)  That makes
sense -- I'm the communications editor.  But I haven't been able to get much
interest in using the bulletin boards more.