Well, yeah. But, that was when a Winders program came on a couple of floppies, before the code -- and graphics -- bloat. A program, then, did less and had less junk (toolbars and suchlike). Still, some things _have_ improved in speed. My Corel Draw 3 on my laptop handles text in a rather leisurely fashion, wheras Corel Draw 7 is quite snappy. manney(a)nwohio.com