> I think it's a bad idea to include any "engine". In my book an OS > provide APIs. Period. And in my book those APIs are tied to a system that *does* something. What are the media_server, the app_server, or the net_server if not 'engines' for media, graphics, and networking, repsectively? -Nathan -- Fortune Cookie Says: Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.