May 1996 / Letters

Not My TV	"Toss Your TV: How the Internet Will Replace Broadcasting" (February cover story) was a well-written summary of where we are and a preview of things to come.
Thanks a Million	Congratulations on the consistent excellence of BYTE magazine.
One Pippin to Go	Who needs Apple's Pippin? My school library needs it.
The Linux Phenomenon	BYTE captured the Linux phenomenon in "Linux Matters" (February); as one of the rabid fans to whom you allude, I applaud.
And What About FreeBSD?	In "Not Just Another Free Unix" (December '95), you mention that motherboards with "inferior cache design or broken DMA invalidation logic do exist in.
Banking on ISDN	In "ISDN: Give Up a nd Go?" (February), you insinuate that ISDN is dead because ADSL and Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data (DSVD) are going to take its place.
ISO 9000 for Software	In "How Software Doesn't Work" (December '95), you make it explicit, for the first time, that quality is not reached only through techni ques or tools.
It's Slow in Reverse	I enjoyed "Damn Lies" (Network Project, February).
Fixes	Due to an editing error in "SuperCow on the Beach" (Pournelle, February, page 190), we managed to say "Travan cartridges are physically smaller than DAT or 8-mm but have more storage....

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