The main Problem is, in my opinion, the quality of software in relationship to hardwarepower. Why should I program well and efficient, using only the ammount of memory I need, when there is enaugh? On an Amiga 500, you needed each KByte. Today: "hmm.. not sure how large buffer need to be... so I take 100MB to be sure". This counts for MS too :-) How can it be that an actual OS is not faster as the amiga OS? stefan