The other thing which has not been mentioned in this thread is that comparisons should be between apples and apples.
That is, the comparatively old hardware Don has will perform equally as slowly on similarly "modern" operating systems. (Windows XP is much more resource hungry than Win2000 which is hungrier than Win98 etc. etc.) We used to have a sign up in one of our copy centres - "Quality, Quickly, Cheaply - Pick two." A similar quote could be applied to computers I believe. Regards, Robert
