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Robert, >My NT box is a 486-33 w/ 16 MB RAM. "You must be more patient than I am, I wouldn't even consider running NT with less than 24M." "I ran NT 3.1 and 3.5 on a dual pentium 90 for a couple of months, but I still wasn't impressed with the speed." I would have to admit that I apparently am more patient than you are.<g> "Don't buy the rest of the system short. You'll need fast controllers and video adapters too." I know and fully intend to keep that in mind; but thanks for the reminder. "You really ought to give OS/2 a fair chance before you totally deny its chances in the marketplace." 1. You missed or forgot an earlier message where I said that my company is already a Windows shop. We have very little OS/2 and are phasing that out. So, for work purposes, even if IBM sells zillions of copies of OS/2 (*** and I hope they do ***), it wouldn't be relevant to me. I have gotten very good in navigating my Amiga. In my 10,000-PC, 15,000-employee company, I have the only Amiga still in service (there are about six machines in Louisiana gathering dust).Becoming an expert in OS/2 would put me in that same position again. 2. The IBM personnel I talk to cannot give any vision of why I should bother with OS/2 other than it's theirs and it will keep a couple hundred bucks out of Bill Gates' pocket (a laudible goal). As an Amiga user, I know from experience that anything other than Micros**t's OS is an island. OK, islands can be cool. But you should have a GOOD REASON to live on an island instead of the mainland. Mac and Amiga owners already understand that. Even if Commodore could never articulate why the Amiga was important, their customers didn't suffer from this affliction. So life on the Amiga and Mac islands was easily justified. When I ask IBM sales people why I should live on the OS/2 (and especially their PowerPC) island, I get a blank stare followed by the long version of "it's our new stuff." Bzzzzzt! Wrong answer. I *hope* IBM succeeds with its new products, including OS/2. I am not one of those people who defines "innovation" as lockstep compatibility. But I really don't believe they are going to succeed with it. And I doubt their long-term committment to it. From where I sit, there is too much of "a little too little, a little too late" to OS/2. Tab Trepagnier Cruising on AutoPilot from Beaumont, Texas