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Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by enf »

vijucat wrote: post #29

Love it. I grew up reading these. Somehow, they made their way to Hyderabad, India, and were sold on the roadside [1] for mere rupees, but had the top 20% of the front cover torn off. I never got that...Maybe a way to prevent re-sale in the US? Anyway, 13-year old me absolutely loved BYTE and PC Magazine from the US and a bunch of Sinclair ZX Spectrum assembler and BASIC books from the UK ("Shiva's friendly micro ser…

When the cover is missing, it usually means a book or magazine was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher for a refund.

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by antod »

vijucat wrote: post #29

Love it. I grew up reading these. Somehow, they made their way to Hyderabad, India, and were sold on the roadside [1] for mere rupees, but had the top 20% of the front cover torn off. I never got that...Maybe a way to prevent re-sale in the US? Anyway, 13-year old me absolutely loved BYTE and PC Magazine from the US and a bunch of Sinclair ZX Spectrum assembler and BASIC books from the UK ("Shiva's friendly micro ser…

Assuming it worked the same in India, magazine sellers 'returned' unsold copies by sending back just the cover titles to the distributor instead of the whole thing. You were buying the unsold 'returns'.

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by dboreham »

sbjs wrote: post #19
kohala wrote: post #18

I like the headline for the issue from September 1992: Is Unix Dead? Soon Unix will face its most powerful adversary to date: Microsoft Windows NT. Will Unix Survive?

If AWS didn't use Linux for servers and Apple chose to buy BeOS instead of NeXT, would Unix be around as prominently as it is right now?

AWS wouldn't be around now, since Linux servers dominated years before it launched.

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by dboreham »

supernovae wrote: post #27
sbjs wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If AWS didn't use Linux for servers and Apple chose to buy BeOS instead of NeXT, would Unix be around as prominently as it is right now?

Funny people credit AWS or Apple... Neither really convinced people unix was worth it in such a way that Sun Solaris did. Too bad they collapsed and oracle of all places snagged 'em.

You mean SunOS -- Solaris is quite new.

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by 0x0 »

sbjs wrote: post #19
kohala wrote: post #18

I like the headline for the issue from September 1992: Is Unix Dead? Soon Unix will face its most powerful adversary to date: Microsoft Windows NT. Will Unix Survive?

If AWS didn't use Linux for servers and Apple chose to buy BeOS instead of NeXT, would Unix be around as prominently as it is right now?

Didn't BeOS ship bash and a partial POSIX interface? So we would still be in the "unix clone such as linux" land?

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by whitten »

Another great magazine that helped me get up to speed on computers was Kilobaud Magazin. I guess it's name is kinda dated in the days of Gigabaud transmissions, as a kilobaud was 1024 bits per second, or 128 bytes per second.

Anyway, you can review Kilobaud Magazine on Internet Archive using the URL : https://archive.org/search.php?query=Kilobaud

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by JoeDaDude »

Along these lines, who remembers Algorithm magazine? Published by computer scientist and author A. K. Dewdney. It only ran for a couple of years in the mid 90's. [1] is the only reference I've found. If anyone has issues, please contact me.

[1] http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/StreetTech/Algorithm.h...

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by dylan604 »

diego_moita wrote: post #12

My favourite number, that I kept for years later, was from September/1990. It had interviews with everyone that was "important" back then (Gates & Allen (MS), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Doug Engelbart (mouse & GUIs), Tony Hoare (quicksort), Brian Kernigham, Donald Knuth, Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet), Philipe Kahn (Borland), Bob Noyce, Dennis Ritchie (C), Bjarne Stroustroup (C++), Wolfram) predicting the future. None of them pre…

I recently found myself in Boston needing computer stuff, and wound up at Micro Center in Cambridge. It was interesting in that they had pictures of the computing legends. Your list reminded me of that, as most of your list was represented in these portraits.

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by zuminator »

BYTE was great, sort of a microcomputing version of the more upmarket mini-/mainframe Datamation magazine. But as a hobbyist I was more drawn to Creative Computing [1] and the even funkier Compute! [2] magazine in its exclamation point heyday.

1. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing

2. https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine

Re: BYTE Magazine

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Post by jlc »

zuminator wrote: post #49

BYTE was great, sort of a microcomputing version of the more upmarket mini-/mainframe Datamation magazine. But as a hobbyist I was more drawn to Creative Computing [1] and the even funkier Compute! [2] magazine in its exclamation point heyday. 1. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing 2. https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine

Oh man! I forgot all about Creative Computing. I loved Compute! and Compute!’s Gazette and Byte though.
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