From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> JOHN! You're alive! How have you been? Totally sidetracked with scatterbrained hardware projects! (Anyone who hasn't at least *looked* at the XMOS XS1 microcontroller has been WASTING THEIR LIFE! They are exceedingly cool, and perfect for bit-banging weird things like old DEC busses.) Clearly I've been missing a lot of fun HECnet chatter. How's life with you? I'm just accustomed to RSTS/E and RSX-11M, "big" OSs. Little ones don't really do much for me. That's all. Actually I have the same bias, so adjusting to RT after an earlier RSTS life was a shock, but the way the tiny pieces fit together is really beautiful. .READC/.WRITC and .SPND/.RSUM are trivially simple but getting the same functionality on a supposedly "modern" OS is such a pain... John Wilson D Bit