In your News & Views story "Network and Windows 95 Take Top BYTE Awards" (July), you state that the editors voted Windows 95 as the Best Operating System and the Best of Show because "This was the first Comdex at which Windows 95 was in full display on the show floor." I was under the impression that BYTE gives something the Best of Show prize at Comdex because of its outstanding quality and usability, not because its manufacturer plasters it everywhere, forcing others to follow or go out of business. This is nearly as sad as seeing BYTE's Web server use 8.3 filenames.
Szabolcs Szigeti
pink@fsz.bme.hu
Windows 95 is not perfect, but it is a pretty good step toward dragging the huge Windows installed base into a 32-bit future. And some of the 32-bit apps that Win 95 enables will be powerful, innovative, and just pla
in neat. -- Eds.
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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