Stat-Math  Unit
                                         ISI
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                                         November   22, 1997

The Editor
Resonance
Indian Academy  of Sciences
C. V. Raman  Avenue
Bangalore  560 012

Dear Professor

This is with reference  to the articles on Personal  Computers   and
Software  that have appeared in Resonance.  Informative  articles on
the different architectures,  different processor  classes and operating
systems  are doubtless  of interest. Moreover,  it is certainly a good
idea to illustrate these concepts  with reference  to the most  common
platforms.

However,  I was perturbed   to see that the articles published  are
given titles like "Windows  95" or "The  Pentium  processor"  and  deal
almost  entirely with  these commercial  products.  It is almost in the
same  spirit that one could expect to see an article on how  frost-free
refrigerators work with the title "What  the benefits of a BPL  6-door
are".

Unless Resonance  thinks  of these articles as advertisements   and
accepts  payment  from the relevant companies  I think such articles
should be suitably  modified.  The information  provided can also be
found  in the commercial  computer  magazines  (like PC Magazine  and
Byte) which (I suppose) do get paid for the free publicity. There is
reason  to hope  that Resonance  will be different!

                      Yours  sincerely,


                      K. H. Paranjape