"How Software Doesn't Work" (December) provided a very good overview of the ills that software is heir to, and concise advice on how to avoid some of them.
I rely on your usually excellent articles about operating systems, but in "Crashing the Party" (Special Report, November), the statement "In both Windows 3.1 and 3.5, available memory can also become exhausted if more than 100 threads or processes are launched simultaneously" is simply false and appears to indicate confusion about the difference between threads and processes and how modern operating system
s provide multitasking.
In your review of HTML tools ("Web Publishing Made Easier," December), you say "there's no way to add rows or columns to a table besides using a text editor ...
What a wonderful world we live in. Microsoft's benevolent influence is so great that you counted the P6's 32-bit optimization as a technological disadvantage ("CPU Scorecards," November).
Although BYTE consistently demonstrates high editorial standards, we noted with concern that your Special Report "And One for All" (November) contained inaccurate statements about our product, XVT.
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