ms>I don't doubt it for a second, but I know it definitely will ms>lock up a real 8088. Grew so accustomed to the NEC V-series I suspect I'd come to think of them as the *real* 8088... and 8080. Uu> Key generation on the XT is as exciting... and as fast... Uu> as a baseball game... ms> Well, more like _cricket_, actually. 8-) There is *nothing* like cricket. Uu> Encryption speed is more than adequate. ms> Considering the math involved, yes. Still even a 20MHz 286 ms> fairly flies doing PGP tasks in comparison, though. Agreed. Just didn't want the potential PGP user with an XT to feel he'd have to settle for a Clipper chip... and had my button pushed by the naif overly impressed with the originovelnew. One wonders what reaction one would elicit were he confronted with an Altair kit and its quarter mile of white wire or MS Basic on paper tape or cassette. --------------------------------------------------------------------- internet : xxclark@indst.indstate.edu RelayNet (488) Vanilla BITNET: XXCLARK@INDST FidoNet (1:2230/114) Phone: 911 TechNet 11:800/0 One need not be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------