For you Macintosh users, I thought I'd share with you my experiences with SpeedDoubler, a new utility that (effectively) doubles or even triples performance of many applications that still are heavily dependent on 68K code (as opposed to purely PowerPC code). My PowerMac 7100av is currently running at 80 MHz, with a 512K L2 cache, and 40 MB of physical RAM. (I can remember when 32K of "core" was a huge amount, and I can remember when Intel supplied 8 MB to CDC for their "Plato" system...at that time, one of the largest solid state memory installations ever.) SpeedDoubler, from Connectix, is a $60-70 (street) product that takes 68K code and makes various optimizations for the PPC. It's effectively the 68K emulator that Apple should have provided. (For you non-Mac users who are reading this, this technology of intercepting and translating code, is likely to be used to get higher performance out of code written ostensibly for one CPU but actually run on a later iteration of the processor. Such as the Pentium or P6 in running 16-bit code.) In Speedometer, I saw a 3.9x increase in "CPU"-related tasks (for 68K code), and a 2.4x increase in a SmalltalkAgents application which is only available at this time in 68K code form. Even the Finder runs faster, as various parts of it are still written in 68K code. So, as many programs are still in 68K code form, and not yet rewritten for the PPC, SpeedDoubler effectively gives you a machine that is almost twice as fast. There may be a few incompatibilities, and I would suggest you read comp.sys.mac.apps and other groups to verify that your critical apps are not having any problems. All I can say is that I'm very happy. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."