January 1996 / Letters

The PC Is Dead--Long Live the PC	In "The New PC" (October '95) you talk about general-purpose digital signal processors and native signal processors providing for all the user's multimedia needs.
Buried Gold	Your articles on data mining (State of the Art section, October) were wonderful!
Blasts from the Past Returns in the Present	The "Blasts from the Past" column that you've had over the last year was a lot of fun.
Where's the Mac?	I read the November BYTE Special Report on "today's and tomorrow's" operating systems and was very surprised to find no mention of the Macintosh OS.
Of WAIS, WebSite, and Windows NT	I have been traveling the same road as you: text searching via NT-based Web servers.
The Real World	Finally, the promise of a technology to bridge the c lassic Academics vs. Pragmatics gap!
Ugly X Window	I take exception to Tom Yager's statement ("OS Paradise," November) that X Window is ugly.
Linux Fan Club	"The Linux Phenomenon" (November) implies that Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD are difficult to use.
DavyCrockett@alamo.com	What thrills me about Ted Nelson's Commentary (November) is his sarcastic, yet fearfully realistic, comment regarding "something like the Clipper chip.

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