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>Interesting, I have been hearing the NT 32 bit predictions from DPS/in:sync but the counter to those are the bench marks done my PC Magazine in this months issue. NT running 32 bit apps from Microsoft (Word and Excel) ran slower than the 16 bit apps on 3.11! NT required much more memory to come even close. The authors suggest that the security overhead for protected memory causes the disparity.< They said the same thing about Word/Excel in PC Mag about a year ago when the first 32bit NT versions came out. I think it is that the Win3.1 versions use assembly code for speed improvements, and the use of assembly code is not allowed under NT. Just because the programs come from MS doesn't mean they run the best. MS is such a huge company and their 32bit experience in application development is fairly new, where the 32bit OS team was made up of many people from DEC. I wouldn't base my decision on the speed of NT from Word/Excel numbers when I have other apps that are faster under NT (AutoCad R13, Elastic Reality, Photoshop, etc).