Description
Byte Magazine – August 1985 | Vol. 10, No. 8 | The Amiga from Commodore | No Label | Good
This vintage issue of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, Vol. 10, No. 8 (August 1985), is a special issue featuring the groundbreaking Commodore Amiga, one of the most significant personal computers of the 1980s. The Amiga was lauded for its powerful computing capabilities and advanced color graphics, ushering in a new era of multimedia and home computing. In addition to the Amiga coverage, this issue also explores declarative and functional programming languages such as Prolog, Hope, and FP, and includes Steve Ciarcia’s project work, new hardware reviews, and Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor reporting from the West Coast Computer Faire.
The magazine is in good condition, with some minor edge wear consistent with age. The exact copy pictured in this listing is the one you will receive. All items are shipped with a protective plastic covering. Please review photos for condition purposes.
Contents include:
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Features
The Amiga Personal Computer — Gregg Williams, Jon Edwards & Phillip Robinson: Powerful performance and advanced color graphics (p.83)
Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar: Build the BASIC-52 Computer/Controller — Steve Ciarcia: Cost-effective performance booster for serious applications (p.104)
The DSI-32 Coprocessor Board, Part I: The Hardware — Marshall, Scolaro, Rand, King & Williams: A 32032-based microcomputer for the IBM PC (p.120)
Programming Project: Context-Free Parsing of Arithmetic Expressions — Jonathan Amsterdam (p.138) -
Theme: Declarative & Functional Languages
Prolog Goes to Work — Clara & John Cuadrado (p.151)
Logic Programming — Robert Kowalski (p.161)
Declarative Languages: An Overview — Susan Eisenbach & Chris Sadler (p.181)
Program Transformation — John Darlington (p.201)
Functional Programming Using FP — Peter G. Harrison & Hessam Khoshnevisan (p.219)
A Hope Tutorial — Roger Bailey (p.235) -
Reviews
Reviewer’s Notebook — Glenn Hartwig (p.265)
The Tandy 1000 — Rich Malloy: An affordable IBM PC-compatible (p.266)
IBM Pascal 2.00 — Patrick J. Finan (p.275)
Review Feedback (p.283) -
Kernel
Computing at Chaos Manor: The West Coast Computer Faire — Jerry Pournelle (p.293)
BYTE Japan: COMDEX in Japan — William M. Raike (p.331)
BYTE U.K.: Declarative Update — Dick Pountain (p.341)
According to Webster: Greetings and Agitations — Bruce Webster (p.355)
BYTE West Coast: New Microprocessor Chips — Phillip Robinson on Intel iAPX 386, 80C86, and more (p.369)
Circuit Cellar Feedback — Steve Ciarcia (p.376)
Bytelines — Sol Libes (p.378) -
Departments
Editorial: A Very Special Issue (p.6)
Microbytes (p.9)
Letters (p.14)
Fixes and Updates (p.33)
What’s New (pp.39, 380)
Book Reviews (p.49)
Ask BYTE (p.70)
Unclassified Ads (p.429)
BYTE’s Ongoing Monitor Box / BOMB Results (p.430)
Reader Service (p.431)
Notes on Condition:
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Good overall condition
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Minor wear on edges (see photos)
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No mailing label
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Protective plastic covering included
Shipping:
We do offer combined shipping upon request.
This issue is a highly collectible milestone in computing history, notable for its early in-depth look at the Commodore Amiga, while also offering a wide-ranging exploration of declarative programming, new microprocessor technology, and cutting-edge personal computing innovations of the mid-1980s.