greenber@uunet.uu.net (07/18/89)
On the BYTE article with my byline on it. Let's just say that the
BYTE staff are very creative in their editting and their copyed
procedures. Although I was shown a proof of an earlier revision of
what they did, they opted to run an article I never saw. Portions of
that article I did *not* write. In particular, the tail of the
article (the "The Sky Is Falling!" silly stuff) came out of some
editor's keyboard, not mine. They softened the technical side of the
article beyond belief ("An Interrupt Vector? Why would an interrupt
care about direction and magnitude? We'll change that to something
else.....Hey! Does anybody know anything about computers?").
Sigh.
Well, my complaints went up to the editor, Fred Langa, and I can but
hope that future writers for them would be pleased at the resulting
article with their name attached to it. I specifically am displeased
at the mush article they had the nerve to print with my name atached
to it.
The Real Moral: Writer's articles get screwed around, even at what
used to be considered a fine publication. Argggh!
Ross