Dr. Dobbs to cease?

[Marden P. Marshall]

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