Hey,

>Nothing is as fast as Foxpro DOS - every version of Fox since has gotten slower on the same hardware - it's just that we kept getting bigger hardware.

There may be some truth to that as the hardware and operating systems have gotten a lot more complex. But compare VFP on the lastest hardware and software to the alternatives :-)

>BTW, is VFP 8 only available for W2K and XP - I want to run it on 98.

Development environment? It can be made to work on Win98 but it's not supported officially. There have been threads here about how to do that and I'm sure there will be threads in the future on this. VFP8 applications distributed to Win98 platforms will work fine.