Les Mikesell wrote: <snip> > To overgeneralize, that's one of the big differences between free and > commercial software. Commercial software that has a customer base > that they can't afford to lose will rarely break backwards > compatibility, or if they do, they'll provide conversion tools to > manage the migration. <snip> Either you never dealt with Apple abruptly terminating support for your hardware - the CPU for instance - or the memory was so painful that you blocked it out :). On the flip side, Apple fans seem to be unusually resiliant. I'm not bitter... -- Charles Polisher