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From: car@refuge.colorado.edu (Chris Roueche)
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Subject: New magazine named MIPS.
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Date: 23 Feb 89 21:09:19 GMT
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	I observed that some folks have been in mourning over the
	downfall (or death) of PCTech magazine.  Well, there's a
	new one available called MIPS.  I have received the first
	two issues and am reasonably impressed.  Anybody else out
	there take this gamble on yet another computer magazine or
	am I the lone MIPS subscriber?  :-)

	It's not for everbody; it covers high end machines -- no
	cheap stuff in these pages.  They have given in depth reviews
	and comparisons of the NeXT machine, a couple 33MHz 386
	machines, the Sun 386i, and other machines comparable to
	these high end monsters (386, 68030, RISC, SPARC, N10,
	Weitek, 486, etc.).

	They also cover current concepts, such as OS/2 vs. UNIX
	scheduling.  Although the software testing seems minimal,
	they have compared the performance of several PC UNIX
	implementations.  Their testing platforms are quite thorough.

	No, I'm not advertising.  I just feel that this magazine fills
	a market gap that some people may be interested in.  I am
	quite happy I took the gamble on y.a.c.m.  (Not that I can
	afford any of the equipment reviewed...).  Oh yes, let me mention
	the minimal advertising (compared with "other" mags [computer
	shopper -- :-) just kidding])

	Chris Roueche
	Student -- CU @ Boulder

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