Tom Thompson's "The Network in the Server" (July) is the most lucid and helpful explanation of Tandem's ServerNet system area network and its potential applications that I have seen.
Kudos (again) to Tom Halfhill for his detailed yet clear explanation of how the MMX instructions work with Intel-type CPUs ("x86 Enters the Multimedia Era," July).
On reading your article on MMX performance optimization ("Programming Strategies for Intel's MMX," August), I find the example stack prologue code on page 64 does nothing to cause 64-bit alignment, only 32-bit alignment.
Due to an editing error in "Adieu, Pentafluge...Hello Cyrus" (August), we described Jerry Pournelle's new Cyrix 6x86 machine as having an "EIDE CD-ROM drive running off an Adaptec Ultra SCSI board.
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