May 1997 / Inbox

Taking Sides	Most people I know are taking sides in some sort of PC versus NetPC/Java/Internet paradigm.
The Wrong Key	In your discussion of encrypting and decrypting messages (see the sidebar "Security: Who's Got the Key?
Bus No Bottleneck	In "The Mac Goes Multiprocessor" (February Core CPU), Tom Thompson mentions how the system bus limits use of processor capacity.
Java for C++	I agree with your point that though Java may be the largest installed software platform in the world, it still can't displace the OS that supports its run-time environment ("Today the Web, Tomorrow the World," January).
Platform Agnostics	I appreciate BYTE's efforts to remain platform-independent -- it helps the growing number of platform agnostics make intelligent buying decisions.
NT Security	In "NT Security" (February Web Project) Jon Udell mentioned that the Windows NT 4 Resource Kit includes a utility to activate lockout for the administrator account.
Clean Data In	"Garbage in, garbage out ...," the opening sentence of "Take Your Data to the Cleaners" (January State of the Art), is somewhat ironic.
Fixes	The features table for "13 Graphics Cards for Business" (February Hardware Lab Report, page 106) contained several errors The Hercules Dynamite 128/Video card does not support hardware 3-D acceleration.

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