>> I quit buying byte when they dropped the circuit cellar.

> Blame McGraw-Hill's legal staff. 

I still wonder why Byte, once a leading magazine (*the* maganize) on
computers and related electronics transformed itself into a me-too type
of computer magazine (aimed at managers instead of techies), and (of
course) lost its readers and had to quit. Was the old format unfit for
the new times? Or did some manager think this was a smart move? 

As a boy I read, read and re-read the old bytes, with articles like
Steve's PC clone (full schematics!), Jerry's adventures with TRS80
memory expansion units, and in-depth articles about memory management on
the Mac (remember, double-indirection instead of a memory management
unit). CC still has a compareable level on the electronics side, drDobbs
kept the flag on the software side for some time (but has IMHO also
turned bad).

Wouter van Ooijen

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