Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:02:57 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what magazines do you read? Message-ID: <199707150402.XAA03469@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@rush.aero.org> of "Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:05:31 PDT." <199707142305.QAA24632@anpiel.aero.org>
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> > Byte went irrevokably downhill when Jerry Pournelle became their > > apostle of technology review. > > Boy, got THAT right. It's tough being a science fiction fan in a > town full of Pournelle-worshippers. It's kept me out of organized > fandom for 20 years. Byte's last straw for me was a last page editorial instructing us of the evils of investing in RISC based computers, that CISC would never be abandonded and will protect your software investment. Reflecting back, I guess he was right. But all the reasons were wrong and two or more wrongs don't make a right. (But 3 lefts will.) Several years later Dr. Dobbs was doing this wonderful series on something called "386BSD", so for a while I subscribed to another computer magazine. Thru it all, I've still maintained my subscriptions to MacUser and MacWeek. Sometimes borrow an issue of PCWeek. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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