willf wrote "& all those ill-informed developers at NewTek & Alias/Wavefront spent all that time & effort to develope MAC OSX software!" Exactly the point, they're developing OS-X software. OS-X is UNIX, with a Mac shell on top. It's nothing like MacOS 9, 8, 7, 6, etc. OS-X provides real OS services: preemptive multitasking, protected memory, ad half way decent interprocess communication. OS-X makes it possible to write an enormous application like Maya, PhotoShop, or Naturally Speaking, without having to build an operating system into your program because the one on the computer isn't adaquate. OS-X is also 12 years late (as of last count). Yup, that's when I attended my first Apple presentation about it, 1989. It was supposed to be in beta in a few months. Not the next millenium.