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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Open Mouth.  Insert Foot.  BYTE.
Summary: The foot's in my mouth now.
Keywords: BYTE, Amiga, oops
Message-ID: <10764@well.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 06:42:51 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
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[ Note:  I have cancelled the original article. ]

	After posting my flame to BIX, there was a rather rapid response from
Fred Langa, Editor In Chief of BYTE Magazine.  It would appear that my
original posting was formulated with incomplete facts.

	Excerpts of his postings follow:
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[ ... ]
We would have run the gallery-type piece if we had had enough available
pages. I don't know who said we killed the piece *because* it was
mostly Amigan, but that's wrong. I know it's wrong, because I'm
the one who killed the piece.

Why did I kill it? Because we had more articles than we could fit, and I 
chose instead to run with a meaty technical feature that compares and 
contrasts Amiga graphics with PS/2s and Macs. My belief is that a
technical article has more lasting value than several pages of 
demonstration images, however good-looking. So, the technical article
on Amigas is running; the gallery of pretty screens is not.

We still will run one gorgeous screen on the cover of the graphics supplement.
I don't know if it's Amigan or not: I didn't ask. When the Art Director
and I selected the cover image, we went solely on visual appearance
and didn't even consider which pc architecture produced the image.

If anyone can infer an anti-amiga conspiracy in all this, my hat's off
to you.

Again: the LEAD ARTICLE in the whole d***** supplement focusses
heavily on Amigas. If that's not enough for you, I'm very sorry.
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[ In a later posting, Mr. Langa writes: ]

[ ... ]  Oh, BTW, I did go back and check; the Graphic
Supplement cover *is* an Amiga-generated image.  [ ... ]
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	I would emphasize that, at the time, I firmly believed that I had
all the relevant facts.  It appears that I was in error.

					Schwab