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Neville: Please don't take the "curtness" of the reply personally, but this IS a question (or the type of question) that gets asked probably once a day. It's been Autodesk's policy for a long time, and many of the Adesker's by now just have a programmed macro to send the "we don't comment" message. There has been a lot of discussion here in the past (and the threads may still be active — you might want to look) about the pluses (and minuses) of NT vs UNIX vs etc. as OS's for 3DS. But it is all purely speculation and conjecture. Right now, the big impediment to any platform conversion is IPAS. While IPAS is a great strength to the existing 3DS platform, how to support those routines (especially since the majority are all 3rd party) under all those OS's that people want to see, is the big question, apparently. That's causing (as I understand it) some of the delay in seeing the SGI render engine (an intent that's been announced as being developed jointly by Autodesk and SGI). Anyway, please don't be put off, and I think you'll find this forum a GREAT resource — but we often bicker like old married folk, so keep a thick skin! Dave