emjej@uokvax.UUCP.UUCP (07/13/86)
Curiouser and curiouser! I count four references to OS-9 (non-advertisement) in the July 1986 BYTE. This compares to five non-advertisement references to it that I've seen in *all* previous issues of BYTE. (To enumerate: 1. Brian Capouch's BASIC09 review. 2. an article in the same issue as (1), mentioning the use of OS-9 and BASIC09 in a system controlling a telescope. 3. A very early "Byte: Japan" column, perhaps before the author knew what one should and shouldn't write about :-), which mentioned that OS-9 runs on the then-new Fujitsu FM-77. 4. A letter to Jerry Pournelle from a fellow with "The Mill," pointing out the speed with which it ran Pournelle's matrix-twiddling benchmarks. 5. A query in the Atari ST section of the "Best of" BIX a couple or so months ago.) Clearly, in view of past behavior, the editorial staff at BYTE have all come down with kuru or something! :-) Perhaps we should write and express our condolences...or, more seriously, our actual opinions. James Jones