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In article <588@auscso.UUCP>, mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) writes:
> In article <12346169899024@G.BBN.COM> DREDICK@G.BBN.COM (Donald Redick) writes:
> >  I'm FLAMING Mad.. As Usual, when I received my monthly issue of BYTE.
> >
> >  I have subscribed to BYTE for the last 10 years... It is a tradition
> >  with me. But of late, (as if you haven't noticed) it has turned into
> >  a mouthpiece for the IBM Clan..
> >
> >   Hey, If it had been the Lastest verion of OS/2 you betcha it would
> >   get the biggest review possible.  But just look what we got..
> >   
> >   I guess we just don't rate a SPECIAL ISSUE... TOO INSIGNIFICANT...
> 
> That's pretty much how I saw it when I cancelled.  I did so shortly before they
> published a survey of their user composition:  something like 90% IBM'ers, 
> 9% Maccers, 1% others.  Shortly after, their article content changed to reflect
> this.  Their editorial policies have ALWAYS been strange: consider the number
> of articles lauding the Amiga, a commercial failure, vs. the Mac.  Not to 
> mention that ridiculous "benchmark" of the Mac II vs. the 386, which was pub-
> lished at a time when even the IBM rags were really hyping the Mac II.
> For a long time, I thought that Byte was actually attempting to play the role 
> of a comprehensive journal on microcomputers (as you say, the early articles 
> on Apple II's, TRS-80's, and homebrew S-100's seemed to support that). Then
> it swung HEAVILY into "poor theory" and "IBM-oriented" articles. The lead time
> for articles is ENORMOUS, often seeming to be on the order of six months.  
> It's more worth it to subscribe to MacTutor for Mac technical info, and 
> Communications/ACM for the more esoteric stuff. :-)
I hope someone at BYTE reads this on going protestation of Mac users who
having been long time subscribers to BYTE are bailing out because there's
just too many bones and not enough fish! I'd settle for a regular 68000
section and a few more articles on programming theory and state of the
art hardware (I thought that article a while back on the RS232 weaving
loom was interesting and the kind of thing that you would have found in
BYTE some years back).

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