WARNING: RANTING COMPUTER NUT...

I think that the 10-year rule may have to be dropped when that sliding window falls to the era of the PC monoculture. Sun hasn't died yet, so there's a peephole to other architectures, but a small one. Later we may have to rest on a fixed cut-off date. Resurrecting PC's would be as much fun as other computers if it weren't for the software. BTW I like PC _hardware_. The seeming need that MS has for planned obsolescence, a practice that looks like pure deception to me, has made it first hard then later impossible to love. Sure glad there's Linux. There's a secondary issue too, with the death of computers as education tools, replaced by computers as entertainment. That seems like it could even be a cultural dead-end. First Television went from Golden age to cultural wasteland, now it's time for computers to do same. </deep> BTW I have three Pentium 75 systems here for a good cause. I sure seem to have made Chris happy with other off-focus items. John A. Your O/S will self destruct in 6 months, subscribe for updates Now!