Aah memories. My earliest memories are of a DOS machine. We were kids and we didn't know much about computers. But we learnt to play games. Prince of Persia, Commander Keen, Pong were big hits. So was nibbles on QBASIC. In fact nibbles.bas is probably the first program I saw in my life. Once we tried to load windows from within DOS (I think you had to type WIN at the command prompt) it was the most beautiful thing I had seen on a computer. But alas, it conked out saying we had to get a mouse to use it. I've been hooked ever since! Thank you for your post. Brought a smile to my face. :)
If you need a hammer get C and shut up. If you need a nail gun get C++ and shut up. If you don't need *those* things (and good design should tell you) then by all means get a factory, factory, factory. --code-frog Why would you need to date, when C++ is your soul mate?! --Steve Echols