ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (02/18/89)
[ Note: I have cancelled the original article. ] After posting my flame to BIX, there was a rather rapid response from Fred Langa, Editor In Chief of BYTE Magazine. It would appear that my original posting was formulated with incomplete facts. Excerpts of his postings follow: -------- [ ... ] We would have run the gallery-type piece if we had had enough available pages. I don't know who said we killed the piece *because* it was mostly Amigan, but that's wrong. I know it's wrong, because I'm the one who killed the piece. Why did I kill it? Because we had more articles than we could fit, and I chose instead to run with a meaty technical feature that compares and contrasts Amiga graphics with PS/2s and Macs. My belief is that a technical article has more lasting value than several pages of demonstration images, however good-looking. So, the technical article on Amigas is running; the gallery of pretty screens is not. We still will run one gorgeous screen on the cover of the graphics supplement. I don't know if it's Amigan or not: I didn't ask. When the Art Director and I selected the cover image, we went solely on visual appearance and didn't even consider which pc architecture produced the image. If anyone can infer an anti-amiga conspiracy in all this, my hat's off to you. Again: the LEAD ARTICLE in the whole d***** supplement focusses heavily on Amigas. If that's not enough for you, I'm very sorry. -------- [ In a later posting, Mr. Langa writes: ] [ ... ] Oh, BTW, I did go back and check; the Graphic Supplement cover *is* an Amiga-generated image. [ ... ] -------- I would emphasize that, at the time, I firmly believed that I had all the relevant facts. It appears that I was in error. Schwab