In your review of the Tadpole P1000 ("Red-Hot 100-MHz Portable Pentium," June), you claim it is "110 to 120 percent faster" than your reference machine. That would make the Tadpole over twice as fast as your 90-MHz baseline. I think you meant "10 percent to 20 percent faster."
John Smythe
Gainesville, FL
Mr. Smythe is absolutely correct; we apologize for the error.--Rex Baldazo
In "Break Up Your Network" (June), the author multiplies bits/second times bits/byte to arrive at a bandwidth in bits/second. I must be missing something here because I end up with a result of bits-squared/byte-second.
Andy Feibus
VP Technology
Process Systems and Integration Inc.
amf@psi2.com
The arithmetic is correct, but the units got scrambled. The error is in the label
"Kbps," which is kilobits/second. It should have been "KBps," which is kilobytes/second. With that substitution, the units will cancel correctly.--Brett Husselbaugh
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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