scwilk@sdrc.UUCP (Ken_Wilkinson) (08/06/88)
Hello Net, a Fellow worker has sent the folowing letter at about the same time that Leo Schwab did, and with his permission, I am posting...any comments please post, he does not get news (poor guy). Editor, I recently received your August 1988 issue. I will not be renewing my subscription. Despite the special all-macintosh supplement the rest of the cover says what byte has become, a PC Week clone. There are reviews of IBM-pc clones and IBM-pc software. BYTE's subtitle "The Small Systems Journal" is gone. As little as two years ago BYTE still offered a fairly balanced coverage of all small computer systems. As an example, the column "Best of BIX" featured IBM-pc, Apple MacIntosh, Atari St and Commodore Amiga (my machine). This column is defunct. Instead we are fed the likes of Jerry Pournelle's Computing at Chaos Manor. While Mr. Pournelle's column is entertaining (who else could devote an article about how to install a modem without reading the manual), I don't believe it has a place in a serious journal (perhaps an April fools issue). Mr. Pournelle's article in the special all-macintosh supplement is about furniture. Do you really want to encourage your readers to try to install hardware and software without reading the manual? Do most readers care about furniture? I am looking for a journal with regular, monthly, good techical articles about the Commodore Amiga, its hardware and software. Do you know of any? Frank Glandorf
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (08/07/88)
In article <342@sdrc.UUCP> scwilk@sdrc.UUCP (Ken_Wilkinson) writes: >I am looking for a journal with regular, monthly, good techical >articles about the Commodore Amiga, its hardware and software. Do >you know of any? There are at least two, Amiga World and Robo City News. Why are Amiga nuts such fanatics? Forget that, I don't want to deluged with junk mail. John Nagle
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (08/09/88)
In article <17619@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes: >In article <342@sdrc.UUCP> scwilk@sdrc.UUCP (Ken_Wilkinson) writes: >>I am looking for a journal with regular, monthly, good techical >>articles about the Commodore Amiga, its hardware and software. Do >>you know of any? > > There are at least two, Amiga World and Robo City News. > Of all the Amiga-specific magazines around, Amiga World (whirled) is the worst (which is not to say that it's *bad*). Robo City News is pretty good, Amazing Computing is okay, Amiga Sentry isn't bad, INFO does a decent job, Amiga Transactor is excellent. Also of interest are the disk-based and -supplemented mags, such as AX Magazine. If you have further such questions, you'll get much better responses in comp.sys.amiga, where this message has been redirected. > Why are Amiga nuts such fanatics? [ ... ] Why are LISP nuts such fanatics? Why are Berkeley UNIX nuts so adamantly opposed to SysV? And why is Amiga fanatacism such a bad thing? When was the last time you ever saw such enormous grass-roots support for a machine? The Apple-][? How long ago was that? And why am I asking so many rhetorical questions? Could it be I'm going whacko? _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor