August 1996 / Inbox

The New BYTE	I really like BYTE's new format. Your use of pastel colors makes the magazine seem less stuffy and more approachable, yet you retain the same high quality in your in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art technology.
Get CORBA	After reading through several issues of BYTE, I have become very interested in the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
Unix vs. NT -- and OS/2	I was displeased at not seeing OS/2 included in your article "Unix vs. NT" (May).
Porting Unix	I use Unix extensively in a scientific research environment, but looking at the price of new NT machines--and especially NT software--often makes me think about switching.
Use at Your Own Risk	Besides being interesting in itself, Microsoft's Power Toys suite of utilities ("Underground Upgrades for Windows 95," April) shows a design flaw in the localization model of Win 95.
No Fear with SGML	Many of the work-flow problems you identified in "Work Flow Without Fear" (April) may be symptoms of either using proprietary data formats that tie the user to particular products (and limit the types of processing that can be done) or using APIs rather than data formats, which leads to monolithic systems.
CodeWarrior No Be-All	In "The Be-All of Operating Systems" (May) you say, "Because of its Mac heritage, CodeWarrior has not traditionally generated thread-safe exceptions.
It's Worse Than You Thought	I find the estimate of $400 billion to be spent on the year-2000 problem ("Year 2000 Promises Strange Days Ahead," February) to be preposterous.
Fixes	Due to a typographical error on page 176 of the April issue, we omitted a hyphen in the uniform resource locator for V Communicati ons.

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