🚀 go-pugleaf

"Andy Rae" <andyr@innerworkings.co.uk> writes:

> A better source of information can be found at www.jerrypournelle.com, and
> find out what really happened. Byte may be coming back in name, but last
> time I checked there weren't going to be any of the original writers and
> editors on board. Between them, McGraw Hill and CMP have ruined the best
> magazine - you won't find anything s interesting or eclectic on the shelves
> any more.

"Eclectic"?  Good grief.  I stopped renewing my subscription to "Byte"
in the early 1990s when it became clear that all that the "comparative
reviews" consisted of was "This is an IBM compatible PC.  It runs
MS-DOS.  Here is a pretty graph of our MS-DOS benchmarks."

They had got rid of Steve Ciarcia and all that was left (apart from
the copious and entirely US oriented advertising) was Jerry
Pournelle's senile ramblings.

My crap tolerance is unfortunately high.  With hindsight, I can see
that "Byte" had stopped being a useful information source many years
earlier.  I wasted a lot of time and money on that glossy bogroll.

> Fools.

Indeed.

Giles.
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