Byte was my favorite magazine of all time - even better than Computer Shopper. ;)
I remember the last page article - Stop Bit. One particularly memorable one described how various professionals would search for an elephant. Some I recall are.
- A C programmer would start at the southernmost point in Africa and travel east until they got to the ocean and then move north and head west to the opposite shore, repeating until they had covered all of Africa. An assembler programmer would follow the same strategy but do it on their hands and knees.
- A college professor would prove the existence of an elephant and leave it as an exercise for the students to actually find one.
- A marketing executive would paint a rabbit gray and call it a desktop elephant.
I remember the last page article - Stop Bit. One particularly memorable one described how various professionals would search for an elephant. Some I recall are.
- A C programmer would start at the southernmost point in Africa and travel east until they got to the ocean and then move north and head west to the opposite shore, repeating until they had covered all of Africa. An assembler programmer would follow the same strategy but do it on their hands and knees.
- A college professor would prove the existence of an elephant and leave it as an exercise for the students to actually find one.
- A marketing executive would paint a rabbit gray and call it a desktop elephant.
I wonder if I could find that article. I'll have to see if Archive.org is searchable. Or maybe I can find it by searching today: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/elephant.htm :D