So you are a young pup then... I am 56 and back in school to get my Bachelor degree. I started before there were PCs (about a year before the Altair) and used CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows 386, and yes the Amiga OS. BTW - The Amiga OS was not in any way UNIX-based. I had the original 1000 model and a 3000. It was where I taught myself C programming, which I later used when I started using UNIX (SYSV.2) at work. You may have thought it was UNIX-based because a lot of open source utilities from the UNIX world were ported to it, like Emacs and GNU C, but a few utilities does not an OS make. I will stop learning when I die, or get Alzheimer's, whichever comes first. Mike

As do I, but my system has 32GB of ECC RAM in it. It was the only motherboard I found with dual CPUs that went beyond 16GB. It can support quad core CPUs, but I could only afford 2.8Ghz AMD dual cores when I built it. I can run two or 3 VMs (using Virtual Box) and they seem to be pretty much full speed. They have from 2 to 8 GB assigned to them, depending on the OS (Windows, Linux, or Solaris). All told I have at least a dozen different VMs. For storage you need lots of disk space, too. So I have 6 500GB HDs configured in a RAID 5 with one as a hot spare. With the ECC RAM I reduce the concern of memory glitches, and with RAID 5 I reduce the issue of disk glitches (I had two drives die on me, but it still kept ticking). Everything runs out of RAM and any unused RAM is used as disk cache, so it is very, very fast.