September 1996 / Inbox

The Core of BYTE	The Core of BYTE I don't read BYTE as an alternative to either the news-rag weeklies or the PC-specific periodicals.
Big Blue Electric Money	Udo Flohr's timely article on "Electric Money" (June cover story) correctly points out the important role that secure payment mechanisms are playing in promoting electronic commerce over the Internet.
E-Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash?	Anonymity is an illusion in a workable "electric money" system.
Programming for MMX	Tom Halfhill's "x86 Enters the Multimedia Era" (July CPU column) was very informative.
What, No FoxPro?	In the review "New Leaders of the Client/Server Migration" (June), you covered Delphi, PowerBuilder, SQL Windows, and Visual Basic.
Faster Backups	In May's Lab Report "16 Drives for Fast Data Backup," the Iomega Jaz drive had the fastest average seek time, fastest average access time, fastest synchronous burst-transfer rate, and fastest maximum sustained read/write transfer rate.
Web Lessons Learned	Thanks for another good Web Project column (July).
Fixes	In the features table accompanying "12 Ink-Jet Printers for Quality Color" (June), we should have indicated an RS-422A LocalTalk port as well as a parallel port on the HP DeskJet 850C.

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