October 1997 / Inbox

Thanks for Not Being Pushy	How refreshing! You actually have the audacity to resist the rampant bandwagon-jumping that threatens to strangle diversity out of the computer industry.
CDPD in the Real World	In "Air War" (Special Report, August), Marty Jerome suggests that CDPD is a standardized and useable product.
Digital Mud, 1833	Your Future Watch item ("Digital Ink Gives New Meaning to Paper Recycling," August Bits) suggests that the time may come when readers can receive each new issue of their newspaper printed on the same sheet of paper as was the previous issue.
Stop Making Us Feel Stupid	Jerry Pournelle, whose column I enjoy, says that he was made to feel stupid by not knowing how to prevent DOS-based games from blowing up in Windows 95 (Chaos Manor, August).
NT's Not Proprietary? Ha!	In response to a letter on the subject of NT and Unix comparisons (Inbox, July), contributor Robert L. Hummel quoted "a significant part of the market" as saying "NT boxes ...
Showdown at the MMX Corral	"MMX Power for Desktop PCs" (Hardware Lab Report, July) featured a small review of AMD's K6 CPU.
IBM Channels and I/O Processors	Although I realize that Tom Thompson's article "I2O Beats I/O Bottlenecks" (August) addresses bus-based machines, and that Mr. Thompson is speaking of lower-end PC servers, nevertheless his description of the IOP (I/O processor) is almost exactly the description of I/O "channels" on the much-maligned IBM mainframes.
MessagePad Maligned?	Come on, guys. Your August Lab Report ("Hand-Helds Get Serious," by Michelle Campanale) wasn't a fair, accurate article on hand-held computers, was it?
Fixes	The "Price vs. Performance" graph (on pag e 111) of the July Hardware Lab Report on MMX machines was labeled misleadingly.

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