November 1994 / Letters

Plug and Play Not Exactly New	Dennis Allen's September editorial quotes Tom R. Halfhill's description of Plug and Play for PCs as ``won't be painless, won't come cheap, and will likely take years.'' However, I can tell you one major platform where Plug and Play has been the accepted norm for a decade: Apple's Ma cintosh.
Plug and Play in Hindsight	Choice article on Plug and Play (September). However, you omitted one important part: how a trivial hardware botch in the original PC has made this all much worse than it had to be.
Asking for WAN Trouble	In Jeffrey Fritz's article ``Digital Remote Access'' (September), he illustrates an example of split routing from Washington, D.C., to New York City.
IBM Should License Win32	As a long time OS/2 user, I definitely do not want IBM wasting its time downgrading OS/2 to make you happy.
Object-Oriented? Buzzzzzz	In his September review of Access 2.0, Jim Carls states, ``Access 2.0, like 1.x, is an object-oriented RDBMS (relational database management system).'' He goes on to explain that ``an object is any item in the system that you can manipulate as a unit.'' This definition or description of an object is probably the weakest I have seen.
This Unix Is Free, but the Support Is Free-Form	I just finished reading J. Bruce Dawson's short review of Fintronic's distribution of Linux (``Power of Cooperation,'' September).
From: Sincerely Appalled	Whipping with a cat-o'-nine tails is too mild a punishment.

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