Hi John

>In my experience, end-users don't care. They want an application that fills their needs, if relatively flexible, and relatively nimble. Users don't count bits...and they never have.

I can understand that these are your personal views <g>. That is the practical observations by all I guess, clients are even ready for DOS apps if it gets the job done though they are weary by all the talks that DOS apps are dead in XP (I recently heard one such exclamation when there was a talk of a DOS app running in XP).