>>>The benefit is, of course, at least for right now, my devlopment environment and my target OS are in sync. That will remain that way for a couple of years until, as Lucien predicted, MS drops support for 95/NT and forces everyone to develop for an OS that looks suspiciously like today's UNIX (g).....
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>>Maybe I should return to UNIX then. That way I'll be prepared for anything. I this T-Rex also thought he'd live forever, no?
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>The UNIX comment was more of a joke (many say the interface and features of 95 were already done in Mac and OS2) than a prediction. However, picking up UNIX couldn't hurt anyone really. This industry changes too much to not be learning new things. If you stay stagnent for too long, you'll soon be out of work. IMHO, anyway.
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>Scot.

Thank god it was a joke! I was beginning to think of you as Scot BeckerDamus. :-)
I agree with the thing of learning and all. I try to do that as much as I can. About UNIX, no! It really hurts!!! I've worked to strange systems like AS/400. But UNIX ? I hate it.

Alex.