On: Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)

[rbanffy]

PC Magazine was very focused on PCs. You wouldn’t read about Suns, or NeXTs, Amigas, or even Macs. Byte did a nice review of the Archimedes, the first ARM-based desktop. The ecosystem was a lot more diverse back then than other publications would make you think.

[bluedino → rbanffy]

In the 1990's it seemed like once a year or so they would review various RISC workstations or servers

https://books.google.com/books?id=MfbDrFwiARgC&pg=PA170&dq=p...

You'd also occasionally get them on other tests.

And Mac vs PC tests were common as well.

[rbanffy → bluedino]

That's true, but it was never with the breadth and depth of BYTE. They had in-depth issues about many different families of computers and operating systems. You wouldn't see articles about Transputers detailing experimental OSs for running on them. I remember the first time I read about Python was on BYTE.