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Article #621068Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:22
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:22
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-03-01, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > >> On 2/28/2018 5:51 PM, Peter Flass wrote: >> >>> Looking at the TOC reminded me how much I used to like Byte in the old >>> days, before they went over to the dark side. >> >> Yes! BYTE was wonderful and stimulating when it had substantive content >> instead of just advertising pieces. Although it was kind of good to >> download source code, the cessation of printing source code with the >> articles was a step away from substantive programming articles. > > I used to read it religiously every month. Then one day I woke up > and realized it had turned into Yet Another Wintel Rag, and gave > it up. Before long, enough others relized this that it folded. > It was a sad end for what was once such an enjoyable magazine. > It's sad. They went from a magazine with a small but well-established niche with devoted readers to an attempt to appeal to a larger readership who really didn't care. This is the story of a lot of small companies, not just magazines. -- Pete
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