I agree, more cpu muscle would take out a lot of the tedium -- but
any help from Apple would have done away with all the DOS filesystem, etc.
compatibility. I hate DOS as much as anyone, but at least it's
compatible with some of my other toys...
rob.
Internet: rmiller@bsm.bioc.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~rmiller
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