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Just because *you* don't know of any ABI compliant machines doesn't mean there aren't any. 🙂 I can't name the ABI companies off the top of my head (besides Motorola and Commodore), but I know that the members of the 88Open group (for the 88K) have many software packages available. (I know more about the 88Open since I work on the 88K, and I haven't been keeping up on the ABI stuff). For applications programming, you're right….the processor makes little difference…except for the whole Big Endian/Little Endian deal. For driver development, and OS development, the processor makes a big difference. Like I said before, programming on the 68K or the 88K is much better than programming on the 386. Since that's what I do for a living, that's what I'm interested in working with. And as you said, UNIX software is hardware independant, so it's simple for those companies with "386 UNIX software" to make it "68K UNIX software". Steve