peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (09/21/90)
The other day we heard from a BYTE rep how this magazine is going
to change. It sounded good and so I was eager to get the mentioned
September issue. But again, I was only 50 % lucky.
You see, it is this 15th anniversary issue, and they have two big
parts in it:
1. A chronical with pictures and short stories what happened in
which year. There Commodore was well covered, a real plus.
2. They have that "summit" where many experts discuss about computers
now and in future. And there again they nearly forgot this side
of the business: From all the Commodore experts I only found
Jay Miner and Chuck Peddle. The latter was cited to have helped
develop some microprocessors like 6800 and 6502, but it was
not mentioned that he developed also the original PET (which
was the FIRST real Personal Computer with market impact on this
side of the Atlantic). No other of those Great Gurus, but
a big bunch of people I never heard of before, sigh.
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Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterkcseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) (09/25/90)
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
< The other day we heard from a BYTE rep how this magazine is going
< to change. It sounded good and so I was eager to get the mentioned
< September issue. But again, I was only 50 % lucky.
< You see, it is this 15th anniversary issue, and they have two big
< parts in it:
< 1. A chronical with pictures and short stories what happened in
< which year. There Commodore was well covered, a real plus.
Well covered? The 1985 page had a picture of an A1000 that was about
one square inch, where the Atari was four times that size. This may
seem picky, but, as the saying goes, 'A picture is worth a THOUSAND
words'. And where was the picture of the A3000 (or did I just miss
it)? The blurb mentioned that the 3000 was 'well timed on its release,
due to the multimedia market' (paraphrased), but failed to mention the
vast improvements in the multitasking OS, user interface, processor
speed, AmigaVision, ad infinitum... Funny how they managed to provide
that level of information on the Mac and IBM products. Also, unless I
missed something, there was no mention of the 2500 at all.
< 2. They have that "summit" where many experts discuss about computers
< now and in future. And there again they nearly forgot this side
< of the business: From all the Commodore experts I only found
< Jay Miner and Chuck Peddle. The latter was cited to have helped
< develop some microprocessors like 6800 and 6502, but it was
< not mentioned that he developed also the original PET (which
< was the FIRST real Personal Computer with market impact on this
< side of the Atlantic). No other of those Great Gurus, but
< a big bunch of people I never heard of before, sigh.
After reading the BYTE rep's article, I was encouraged. It seemed
as though they were actually providing some unbiased coverage. I
was very mistaken.
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