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I am championing 3DS on the PC competing with (exclusively) SGI hardware and Alias and Wavefront type software. I can (sometimes by sheer determination and trickery) compete in quality with these animators but not in speed. You guys have done an outstanding job making 3DS efficient and fast and I have absolutly no complaints. My question is this: If you all decided to write a version for a "good" 32 bit operating system for the PC, namely OS2 2.1, you could multi-thread and more importantly not haft to page through a 64K frame for everything. I belive that an application as powerfull as 3DS would be launched squarely in the middle of the SGI brat pack if this could be done. I know all about the NT egg that's all over most developers faces and alot of users as well. And I know that NT or Chicago is the next carrot being dangled by the all mighty Microsoft but OS2 is here now and it's a fist rate operating system (with some noteable rough edges). I don't know what you can and can't say about AutoDesk's future but what do you think about all of this personally? I'd sure like to know cause I'm a devoted proponent of your work and products and I'm staying alive in a world of decreasing price high-powered hardware and glitzy software. Guys like me may be your bet marketing assets and I just want to know your personel thoughts so that I may have hope for the future. Thanks much, Mark Huppertz