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To refocus the thread, let me remind you that Ian's original post said simply that a 1990 Mac or PC isn't usable today. You can purchase a Pentium motherboard for about half the cost of Warp Engine or similar accelerator for the Amiga. On the Mac side, you can purchase a PPC601 upgrade for most Macintoshes for about $1,550 – roughly the same price as a Warp Engine or similar accelerator for the Amiga. In regard to the merits of the Operating Systems, no argument: the Amiga has always had superior multitasking when compared to the Macintosh's primitive co-operative multitasking or Window's slightly less primitive schema. However, the rest of the world has seen the light and Win95 offers usable multitasking, WinNT offers excellent multitasking and the next version of Apple's OS is supposed to include pre-emptive multitasking. The key point, though, is that Ian's claim that a PC or Mac produced in 1990 is unusable is simply not true. Jerry