< I could've sworn you spoke rather higher of it about a year < ago...anyway, I guess I can now understand why it is chosen as the best < example of Bill Gates' work :) but why is it always discussed (on Trimph < of the Nerds, for example) in terms of early personal software? Is it < that this was the best program for the Altair? The later versions were fairly stable and useful. Keep in mind at that time software was scarce (prior to 1977) so I tended to live with some things. It was landmark code in and one of its founders is a billionair now so it's remarkable. Keep inmind Triumph of the nerds was retrorevisonist history. Looking back is not the same as remembering the frustration of having actually used it. Allison