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Tab, I completely disagree. The PowerPC won't be "killed" because just a couple of versions come from a couple of places. NT will shortly be released running the powerpc. At that time, creating working products for those machines is no more complex than (a) getting a machine in-house and (b) re-compiling the application. As a concrete example, we developed our Windows NT applications on a MIPS r4000. When we received our Alpha-based NT machine (about ten a.m.) we had our Alpha version up and running before 5 pm. That's with time to load the compilers on the machine as well as the SDK from CDROM, time off for lunch, and a fair amount of gawking at how fast the thing was. You can expect PowerPC porting to be just as easy, though I'm not at liberty to go into detail on that at this time. Windows NT is just the tip of the iceberg – the target hardware is going to become more and more flexible, as the operating systems become more and more homogenous. As long as manufacturers have the wit to jump on the NT bandwagon (and they're doing it in droves), they're going to do well. So far, we have MIPS, Alpha, Intel and PowerPC versions of NT. I understand there's even a version NT coming for the PowerMac. If one arrives for the 68k family, that'll about take care of the universe right there… but even if not, the majority of the machines currently being manufactured are covered very well. –Ben …via AutoPilot