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"FWIW- Microsoft has dropped their requirement that Windows 95 labeled programs needs to run on NT (like they had origionally stated). I think that's pretty typical of them, and thought you all might be interested in letting MS know that NT support of your favorite programs is a very good thing. " Adobe, for example, says Photoshop will run on NT, but it's not a true port. Just a win32 program. Some parts are multithreaded but not everything. (important in dual processor systems.) Alpha and other RISC support was also not planned. Just Win95. (As I understand my discussions from Adobe tech support.) Interested parties may want to check it out." See? See? SEEEE? <VBG> That's the thing MS stands for in mind, get the money, let'em hang from then on. We'll do it later (more code, more bugs, more money) First we sell'em on the future though! Slandering aside, the problem I see with NT, is not that it is their best version of Windows, but that it is their LEAST supportedd one… What's the use of the OS if there's nothing running on it that takes advantage of it? With the above , they just made my case again. Well, anyhows, it does seem to run the "old" stuff (though slower) and I'm writing this from within my WINCIM running under NT, didn't waste much time, did I? <BG> "BTW Jack, NT comes on CD. 🙂 The NT install medium of choice. It's something like 80MB. 🙂 (32bit code is bigger than 16 in both disk and memory requirements) Good thing hd prices are falling like a rock." I took a look at the screen saver (pipes,GL) and couldn't help but muse about the OS (he,he), the user process's demands probably have to go through just as many "pipes" before they finally get taken care of, but then, they also have to back through'em. A great visual representation of what the OS does 😉 Now, if 3DS has to migrate, migrate it will, and who cares anyhow.? If worst comes to worst, I'll just have to find some Paint program (any paint program) that was written to take advantage of the OS and I can always use NT just for that and 3DS… Meanwhile, I'll run the old piece of $#%@ Windows 3.1, just so I get at least the speed I was used to see my apps do.