Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
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Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
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Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#2Some links inside the article. Byte magazine was plenty of ads, and articles can continue after jumping 300 pages
Start: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n137/...
Continuation: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n405/...
Results: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n411/...
Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#3Some links inside the article. Byte magazine was plenty of ads, and articles can continue after jumping 300 pages Start: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n137/... Continuation: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n405/... Results: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n411/...
I love looking trough the ads! An Apple II, and a color printer from Apple. Compuserve's CB Simulator. Ads for drives that hold Megbytes of data. So many different peripherals and PC makers. UltraPlan Spreadsheet Calculator. An ad for an Assembler. One for Unix Sys V from AT&T. Modem after modem.
Compuserve's CB Simulator sounds like it must've been awesome!
Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#4Right beside an ad for an Modula-2 compiler, the irony.
Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#5Some links inside the article. Byte magazine was plenty of ads, and articles can continue after jumping 300 pages Start: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n137/... Continuation: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n405/... Results: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n411/...
I love looking trough the ads! An Apple II, and a color printer from Apple. Compuserve's CB Simulator. Ads for drives that hold Megbytes of data. So many different peripherals and PC makers. UltraPlan Spreadsheet Calculator. An ad for an Assembler. One for Unix Sys V from AT&T. Modem after modem. Compuserve's CB Simulator sounds like it must've been awesome!
Seeing the article about the "Transputer" was interesting especially given the announcement of the UK government's investment into quantum computing.
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Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#7Some links inside the article. Byte magazine was plenty of ads, and articles can continue after jumping 300 pages Start: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n137/... Continuation: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n405/... Results: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n411/...
I love looking trough the ads! An Apple II, and a color printer from Apple. Compuserve's CB Simulator. Ads for drives that hold Megbytes of data. So many different peripherals and PC makers. UltraPlan Spreadsheet Calculator. An ad for an Assembler. One for Unix Sys V from AT&T. Modem after modem. Compuserve's CB Simulator sounds like it must've been awesome!
From the beginning of Byte magazine until about 1984 are really fun to read. The ads were probably annoying at the time of release, but not they are fun and interesting to read. I like the 1983 issue with imaging where they are talking about movie effects for "Tron" and "Revenge of the Jedi".
I wished they would of had more UNIX in the issues, however it was usually unaffordable. But a fun look, at least for me, to the history of computing. And who does not like an ad for a 8MB, $3999 disk drive subsystem.
Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#8Some links inside the article. Byte magazine was plenty of ads, and articles can continue after jumping 300 pages Start: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n137/... Continuation: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n405/... Results: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n411/...
I love looking trough the ads! An Apple II, and a color printer from Apple. Compuserve's CB Simulator. Ads for drives that hold Megbytes of data. So many different peripherals and PC makers. UltraPlan Spreadsheet Calculator. An ad for an Assembler. One for Unix Sys V from AT&T. Modem after modem. Compuserve's CB Simulator sounds like it must've been awesome!
CB Simulator was basically IRC before that became a thing. It even had channels. Probably blew a few minds in 1980 though!
Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#9Laying out code in variable width font like a boss :). I love reading these BYTE scans from archive.org, they are from such a different computing world. Yet UNIX is the same.
Re: Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love looking trough the ads! An Apple II, and a color printer from Apple. Compuserve's CB Simulator. Ads for drives that hold Megbytes of data. So many different peripherals and PC makers. UltraPlan Spreadsheet Calculator. An ad for an Assembler. One for Unix Sys V from AT&T. Modem after modem. Compuserve's CB Simulator sounds like it must've been awesome!
From the beginning of Byte magazine until about 1984 are really fun to read. The ads were probably annoying at the time of release, but not they are fun and interesting to read. I like the 1983 issue with imaging where they are talking about movie effects for "Tron" and "Revenge of the Jedi". I wished they would of had more UNIX in the issues, however it was usually unaffordable. But a fun look, at least for me, to t…
The ads were not annoying at the time of release. I really enjoyed reading those ads and finding out about products specs and prices, remember that we didn’t have the Web back then and Byte magazine was my main source of information about what was available.