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<<Aaaaaah, yes, but one of the dirty little secrets we are about to face is the fact that your apps under NT must be optimized for different CPUs.>> That is no secret. It's really simple. You simply produce a different version of the program for each different CPU type. You simply recompile the program for a different CPU. So you end up with a different program for each different computer. You then put all the different versions on a CD and then the user installs the program that is suited to his/her particular computer. There really is no big deal in recompiling the program for different computers. Many of the compilers now produce code for different machines automatically, though often you have to spend a day or more fine tuning it for the different architectures. Gary, himself, said that they would just recompile the code on the Dec Alpha to see how well it going on the Alpha architecture. <<Not being seriously knowledgeable about the issues at hand, I'm not even sure that a MAX for Intel NT would run at all on NT for Alpha.>> A MAX version compiled for Intel processors would run on a Alpha, but not as native code, instead it would be run like the Alpha runs all Intel code, interpreted, so you wouldn't be taking full advantage of the Alpha. Instead if the program is recompiled specifically for the Alpha then it would run at it's maximum. DaviD "one in – multiple outs" GouID