mathur@alberta.UUCP (Ambrish Mathur) (11/15/88)
I generally don't read this newsgroup. A friend is considering buying the Amiga/2000 and would like to know if there is a BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga. Any other pointers to exhaustive reviews are also welcome. Thanks very much in advance. Please email responses. Ambrish Mathur mathur@alberta.uucp
jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) (11/28/88)
In article <1830@pembina.UUCP> mathur@alberta.UUCP (Ambrish Mathur) writes: >I generally don't read this newsgroup. A friend is considering >buying the Amiga/2000 and would like to know if there is a BYTE >issue devoted to the Amiga. Any other pointers to exhaustive >reviews are also welcome. Thanks very much in advance. Please >email responses. > >Ambrish Mathur >mathur@alberta.uucp A BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga? Thanks for the best laugh I have had in a long time. They DID do a look at the A2000. But that is the best they did. (And there are interesting C= vs BYTE politics involved here. C= tried to tell BYTE how to cover their revolutionary new machine which was little more than a repackaged A1000. BYTE balked and some bad feelings evolved. Mostly these have been patched over; but, BYTE is now a PCLone rag with a token Macintosh coverage. This is imspite of 1) Amiga conferences being the biggest thing on BIX today and quite regularly in the past, and 2) liberal flames on BIX about the lack of Amiga coverage, and 3) BYTE's lack of general interest articles with way way too many 'reviews" instead. Ah well... Such is life.) (And hooboy - you usenet guys never flamed Jerry as well as Fred Langa has been fried over the death of the er ah um "Classic BYTE".) -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide? Better yet - she should get an Amiga and quit playing with dragons and knights.
scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) (11/30/88)
In article <9024@gryphon.COM> jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) writes: > A BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga? Thanks for the best laugh I have had in >a long time. They DID do a look at the A2000. But that is the best they did. You've forgotten the August(?) '85 issue when the A1000 made BYTE's cover. This one had a number of articles about the Amiga and its revolutionary design. This almost qualifies as a "BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga". -scott
cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz) (11/30/88)
In article <9024@gryphon.COM> jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) writes: [stuff deleted] > A BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga? Thanks for the best laugh I have had in >a long time. They DID do a look at the A2000. But that is the best they did. > jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes Remember way back when, 1985, August or so, a BYTE featuring the Amiga (a big "A") on the cover? I have that issue around here somewhere... Anyway, it was pretty excellent coverage of the Amiga. In fact, that one issue convinced me to buy an Amiga. Remember way, way back when, when Computerland used to sell Amigas? We've come a long way, baby... John Schultz
dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) (11/30/88)
In article <870@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes: :In article <9024@gryphon.COM> jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) writes: :> A BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga? Thanks for the best laugh I have had in :>a long time. They DID do a look at the A2000. But that is the best they did. : :You've forgotten the August(?) '85 issue when the A1000 made BYTE's cover. :This one had a number of articles about the Amiga and its revolutionary :design. This almost qualifies as a "BYTE issue devoted to the Amiga". : :-scott Yeah, but I think that's long enough ago that it falls in the "What have you done for me lately?" category. -- Dave Hanna, Daltech MicroSystems | "Do or do not -- There is no try" P.O. Box 584, Bedford, TX 76095 | - Yoda (214) 358-4534 (817) 540-1524 | UUCP: ...!killer!gtmvax!dave |