December 1995 / Letters

Death to the PC	To those of us who have been making a living on mainframes and minis for the past 25 years, your October [cover] headline "The PC Is Dead" was quite amusing.
Web Crawl	Your review of World Wide Web/Internet access from the Big Three on-line service providers ("Gateways to the Internet," September) had one blind spot: a "reference" direct Internet service provider.
Macs Serve the Web	Jon Udell's response to Mark Eaton's letter in the September issue revealed his naiveté when it comes to Mac-based Web servers.
Linux Please	While BYTE seems to cover OS/2 in proportion to its market share, you don't cover Linux at all.
P6 Revisited	When is someone going to write an "emperor's new clothes" story about Intel's P6 chip?
"It Was 20 Years Ago Today . . ."	I th ought you might like to know what happened to the first copy of the first edition of BYTE.
Not the First Spreadsheet	You keep printing the statement that Dan Bricklin wrote the first spreadsheet program ("The 20 Most Important People," September).
It Keeps Ticking . . .	Where was the Timex Sinclair in your Anniversary list of top 20 systems?
Re: M	Wow -- finally a little respect for M! We were truly gratified to have this ANSI (1977) and ISO (1993) standard language "consecrated" by a mainstream publication ("A Brief History of Programming Languages," September).
More Weird Error Messages	I came across this error message when attempting to compile a Clipper program: Control level closure leaves gaping wound in control stack.

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