>Yes.. imagine that, we're actually discussing the possibility >of re-implementing the App&InterfaceKit and its 10*? man-years >of work (count'em).. shiver. But it's the most important part, >or second most. Boy, when you put it that way ... =P Seriously though, it's one thing to be developing something as you go along, it's another entirely to reimplement an existing system. How long did Unix take to become a mature system? Considerably longer than it took for Linux to, that's for sure. And BeOS is a much smaller system. It's totally do-able. e Data is not information, and information is not knowledge: knowledge is not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom. - Philip Adams