10 Jan
2009
10 Jan
'09
2:25 p.m.
On Jan 10, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Dr. Dobbs was pretty cool... up until the IBM PC came
out and
dominated everything. By the mid 80's all the Dr. Dobbs articles
were the-latest-TSR-to-do-something-in-MSDOS and it wasn't really
worth the effort for me to even look for something interesting
in it. That may have marked my turning point towards classic
computing, in fact :-).
Tim.
Just received the Feb. '09 issue of DDJ. A scant 48 pages.
On the Editors page, Jonathan Erickson writes:
"So effective in January 2009, Dr. Dobb's Journal is changing to Dr.
Dobb's Report and will be delivered as a new monthly section in
Information Week magazine."
The end of a era.
-Mardy