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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.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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