November 1996 / Inbox

The Future On-line	I found the vision of the on-line future that Mark Schlack described in "Smart, Fast, and Well Connected" (September Editorial) stimulating and bracing.
Wizard Review	Kudos to BYTE for the crisp and substantive review of the OS/2 Warp 4.0 beta ("You Talk, Warp Listens," September).
Cover Story Uncovered	BYTE is usually pretty good, but the August cover is misleading.
Refreshing!	I get sick of all the hype and misrepresentation about the huge shift that has happened with the Internet.
Inspiration and Perspiration	Let me be the one-millionth customer to point out that Thomas A. Edison did not exactly work "on his own" in his lab ("The Elements of Design," August).
Token Token Ring	In this age of political sensitivity, I was disappointed to see you slip into a minority-unfriendly attitude in "Mainstreaming Pentium Pro" (August).
OS Insecurity	In "Air-Tight Windows NT" (August), author Jim Reynolds states that the U.S. National Security Agency granted Windows NT 3.5 C2-level approval.
Xyratex Omitted	While your news story on Serial Storage Architecture ("SSA Products Deliver Better Storage," September Bits) was informative, it neglected to mention that Xyratex supplied the pair of eight-SSA-disk deskside tower units (S9000) for BYTE's testing of this hot technology.
Apache	I've been reading your Web Project column on Web site management with growing amazement.
Java and Forth	After reading your August issue with all those Java articles and code examples, it became very clear that we old-timers can pull our Forth manuals out of storage and put them to use again.
Why Not Tao?	In "Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful" (August Editorial), you question whether distributed computing can be made to work.
Fixes	Due to editing errors, we omitted some text in "Cyrix 6x86 Matches Pentium," (September Bits).

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