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Thanks for your perspective. It's unfortunate that your experience with that UNIX box was so bad. But hey, what can I say? Some of what you want can be done with hardware can be done with REAL/IX via shared memory and connected interrupts….all from user level processes. The only down time involved is to plug that board it. 😉 And I wouldn't say that no one wants UNIX either…if that were true, SUN wouldn't be making the big bucks. From my perspective, and from what I've seen, almost no one wants MS-DOS….not when they can have UNIX instead. For course, that's only from my perspective, since I don't hang out with MS-DOS folks, or go to places that use MS-DOS. :*) And there are millions of UNIX users….heck, just look at the Internet and USENET…..bazillions of machines and quadzillions of users. The actual OS itself and the number of utilities you need to get it running in an embedded application is actually pretty small. Not as small as others, but pretty small. It's all the utilities that make it take up tons of disk space. In the case of REAL/IX on a 68K, the OS itself is less than a MEG. Now, even I think that's too big for UNIX. I wish it were smaller, but it isn't. It'll be interesting to see what The Labs does with Plan 9 and what Tannenbaum does with Amoeba….at least I know those will be tiny. :*) Steve Steve