compdoc wrote: <snip> > My first 'real' computer was a Fat Mac, so I still love a good GUI. And > Windows has a nice GUI. Windows was ok. Oh, sorry, Windows 3.x. One reason I dispise Window (post 3.x) is the incredibly stupid design decision to put the GUI into ring 0. Something goes wrong with the GUI, you're toast. Win 3.x, *Nix (including OS X), oh, well, restart the GUI. And because it's all in there, lessee, I just read the other week that an average laptop these days has the processing power of a mid-nineties Cray supercomputer... and they run like an 8088 (ok, maybe an 80286), just for all the eye candy: style, not content. mark