February 1997 / Inbox

OpenDoc Opens Up	Funny you should review OpenDoc ("An Open Window for OpenDoc," December 1996).
CT or MRI?	I enjoyed "How Microchips Shook the World" (December 1996).
Memory Lane	In the text box "Hardware Platforms with 64-bit Muscle" (November 1996 Special Report, page 144) you mentioned that the Pentium uses 64-bit arithmetic operations and internal data paths.
BYTE on Copland	As one who has been quick to criticize the media for bad reporting with respect to Apple in the past, let me congratulate you on "Copland, Revisited" (November 1996 Special Report).
The Wrong Message	In "GroupWise Sends a Message" (November 1996) Steve Gillmor indicates that GroupWise 5 initially runs only on Windows NT Server.
Web Matters	In "Web Surveys" (October 1996 Web Project), Jon U dell says that "if you're in need of a lightweight Unix SQL engine to use in conjunction with these, try msql (www.bunyip.com).
No Robots, Please	In the text box "Getting Along with AltaVista" (November 1996 Web Project), Jon Udell forgot to mention that support for the file robots.txt is not autom atic.
HAL Speaks	"Unix Leads the 64-bit Charge" (November 1996 Special Report) failed to mention HAL Computer Systems' HALStation 300 series workstations.
Was That an NC?	A few months ago, a glass-house industry consortium defined the network computer (NC) as a Java-ready diskless PC costing less than the price of a good filing cabinet.
The Java Race	"Sun Gambles on Java Chips" (November 1996) gives the false impression that there are only three horses in the Java race: software interpreters, just-in-time (JIT) compilers, and Sun's unproven Java chips.
Netspeak	I enjoyed Mark Schlack's book review of Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace in the October 1996 issue (page 38).

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