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Re: Tech Magazines, a suggestion

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From: nunnayourbiznezz
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 19:04
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In article <Sep.9.10.47.55.1988.5061@topaz.rutgers.edu> mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark C. Carroll <MC>) writes:
>
>I see no reason why a similar idea could not be applied to a programmers
>magazine. It would be a lot of work for the people involved, but if 
>people were actually willing to contribute articles and code, it could
>certainly work. And, if this idea is to be tried, the Usenet is a good
>place to start it. Code can be made available by uucp, so that the
>readers wouldn't have to type it, and distribution can be done electronically, 
>so that the costs would be covered by the reader, for transmission time.
>
>\  Mark Craig Carroll                \  /"Quick to judge, quick to anger      /
> |   perhaps better known as: <MC>    \/  Slow to understand                 |
> |    mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu      /\  Ignorance and Prejudice            |
>/ ...backbone!rutgers!topaz!mccarrol /  \ and Fear walk hand in hand" -N.Pert \

Mark, for the most part, that is what comp.[sys|binaries|sources].atari.st
is.  Steve Grimm maintains archives at archive-server@ssyx.ucsc.edu with
binaries and sources.

What would be very nice would be in depth articles (like those for how to
reserve memory for video ram that showed up 2 weeks ago) WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY.
That way, we could go out and get further info if necessary.  Just a title
and date would be sufficient.  
Better code documentation would also be super helpful.

John Kawakami   "I am a Christmas tree..."--Wild man Fischer
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Subject: Re: Tech Magazines, a suggestion
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