car@refuge.colorado.edu (Chris Roueche) (02/24/89)
I observed that some folks have been in mourning over the downfall (or death) of PCTech magazine. Well, there's a new one available called MIPS. I have received the first two issues and am reasonably impressed. Anybody else out there take this gamble on yet another computer magazine or am I the lone MIPS subscriber? :-) It's not for everbody; it covers high end machines -- no cheap stuff in these pages. They have given in depth reviews and comparisons of the NeXT machine, a couple 33MHz 386 machines, the Sun 386i, and other machines comparable to these high end monsters (386, 68030, RISC, SPARC, N10, Weitek, 486, etc.). They also cover current concepts, such as OS/2 vs. UNIX scheduling. Although the software testing seems minimal, they have compared the performance of several PC UNIX implementations. Their testing platforms are quite thorough. No, I'm not advertising. I just feel that this magazine fills a market gap that some people may be interested in. I am quite happy I took the gamble on y.a.c.m. (Not that I can afford any of the equipment reviewed...). Oh yes, let me mention the minimal advertising (compared with "other" mags [computer shopper -- :-) just kidding]) Chris Roueche Student -- CU @ Boulder [any trademark belongs to its respective owner.]
hundt@paul.rutgers.edu (Thomas M. Hundt) (02/24/89)
I observed that some folks have been in mourning over the
downfall (or death) of PCTech magazine. Well, there's a
new one available called MIPS. I have received the first
Which is not a substitute for a tech magazine. The reason for Tech
Journal's downfall is that it started out aiming (as its title suggests)
at someone who's interested in the technical aspects of the machines.
Programmer, savvy user, and especially hackers.
Unfortunately, it never really lived up to this (few mass-market
magazines that aim at techies do), and thus became yet another
competitor to `PC' et al. The material the tech people sought was found
in various books (Norton etc.) and even in this very newsgroup.
Now, we have this thing called MIPS. My friend Jonathan mockingly calls
it "a Real Man's PC magazine". It restricts itself to 386 and other
high end machines, which get plenty of coverage elsewhere. It tries to
imitate the exotic car magazines, while still being down-to-earth enough
to actually have a readership that will spend money on stuff. This is
necessary because of...
the minimal advertising (compared with "other" mags [computer
shopper -- :-) just kidding])
Don't joke. MIPS has just as many ads as the other garbage magazines.
70% perhaps? At least CS doesn't pretend.
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car@refuge.colorado.edu (Chris Roueche) <6893@boulder.Colorado.EDU> : - - I observed that some folks have been in mourning over the - downfall (or death) of PCTech magazine. Well, there's a - new one available called MIPS. - ... - [any trademark belongs to its respective owner.] Indeed. This magazine got a little mention in comp.arch, one of whose bigger contributors is a big man (president?) in MIPS. MIPS the cpu maker, no relation to the magazine and with a pretty solid prior claim to the name. I wonder how it'll shake out...