Had an Amiga (Atari ST, Commodore Vic-20, C-64, and TI at one time) and Genlock setup when I was doing short movies as a teen. They were great, and had a LOT of potential ... ahead of their time for sure. C-64 was my very first computer. Learned to program (BASIC and assembly) on it. Eeks! I'm givin' away my age!! ;p When I finally sank a full-time drafting/design job in '94, I was using an A2000 with AOS 2.1 at home for programming, 2D and 3D graphics, BBS surfing (before the internet became widely popular and available), among many other activities. At work, on the other hand, I was forced to use WFW and Generic CADD (think about a CAD program you can get at CompUSA for $20 and you've got the general idea). Abysmal comparing the two. Much effort was spent in exporting DXF from GC so that I could more efficiently work on a much better CAD system on my Amiga. Ahead of its time and some of us still think that they were intentially targeted (i.e.: the major stock holders and BoD) to be put out of business. The truth will probably never be known as those intimately involved (i.e.: the major stock holders and BoD :) will never divulge their reasons for withdrawing their megafunding of a booming computer company. The first hint that something smelled fishy was when their entire marketing/advertising department was obliterated (soon after their first TV commercials). As a business, you don't kill your access to potential customer expansion and expect to expand your market (and I'm as clueless about business as about speaking Swahili). Kuroyume

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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