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>>>>everybody knows OS/2 is the best Operating system. <g> <-ya I think it is just the previous failure of microsoft, as Win95 will be the next. I have seen programs running on both Os/2 and Linux on the same machine. The Linux program was 10x faster on the same system (Linux is real 32 bit, does not use BIOS at all, is completely free, you can even get the sources) BTW the program I was talking about could not even be programmed in an easy way on a DOS or Windows machine because they lack multitasking (of course you can program that on your own, but this should be a considered an OS-task) I'm not saying Linux is the best operating system, I'm only saying that the fact that companies like IBM and microsoft are not able to make a system that really fits a specifc computer (you can link Linux so that it only runs on a 486 with real 486 instructions) makes me think! Maybe in about one year we will see the first 64bit 80×86 processors and the 32bit operating systems are only arriving now ! We need faster processors because most application programs use less than 10% than their capacity. Windows rules for compatibilities sake, not because it is good ! Maybe microsoft has shares in Intel (IBM does !) 😉 — Let's all hope that Microsoft will find a real rival before they have the complete market for their own (In that I also support OS/2 just as a counterweight to MS) Philip