What Mr. Greenhouse wrote is the summation of years of discussion and debate. I agree with Dick.

Two weeks ago .... a thread from 99 was resurected ... it has some current discussion:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=12960&messages=175#2188718

As noted in the thread - Mr. Mossberg and I are biased to PC - however, he gives some very compeling MAC arguments in his WSJ report:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119508572403993424.html

There are some VERY radical changes coming in the next 18 months - beginning with INTEL's new chip standard next month. However, most apps for common folk continue to be 16 and not 32....and even with VISTA most folk are adviced to not move into 64 yet.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

My personal preference is an 8088 with DOS 2.0.