abney@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Louis Abney) (02/13/85)
This sounds good. It is being edited by Sol Libes, who edited MicroSystems Mag for 5 years. From what I heard (secondhand), the publishers (Ziff-Davis) who bought it (MSM), found it more profitable to shut it down. (The reasons are rather bizarre to the average mortal but it apparently happens all the time in the mag biz. I'll cover it in another article if anyone's interested.) Anyway, it was a pretty good magazine, "honest" reviews and authors who did their homework. One thing that characterized it is that the articles are "practical". About the only bad thing I can say about it is its not clear where they're going. They were originally CP/M oriented but they seem to slowly be phasing that out. The last year or so, they had lots of UNIX articles (in fact, their last issue had a great interview with Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie - a real scoop). But I think they're going to settle for the smaller system's market - people who use MS/DOS, Xenix and code in C, Pascal, Forth, Assembler (although they mention Lisp in the press release!?!). The journal will have regular columns on PC interfacing, C programming and UNIX, and public domain software. It says "stuff to keep every hacker up-to-date on the ever changing micro technology"! Micro/Systems Journal POBox 1192 Mountainside, NJ 07092 (201) 522-9347 Its $18/yr ($24 first class). There's a complex rate schedule with deductions if you were a MSM subscriber (-5%) or if you subscribe before 4/15 (-%10) or if you live overseas or ..., so you should probably call before sending money.