Bert said . .

"it's too much hassle to get to the machine underneath"

like, Windows is SO open and transparent?? (OK, you did say you were talking from a programmers perspective . . so I realise I'm twisting what you said . .

At home we have (in use!) four Acorns (3 x Risc PC and 1 x A5000 - until 2 months ago that was my main machine, despite its only haveing 4Mb memory . . ), 1 x PC (why has PC - personal computer - come to mean "machine running a Mickysoft OS"?). It's not been unknown for daughter and her boyfriend to visit with their computers, bringing a pair of Macs into the house . . So I guess we're pretty "multi-platform".

My considered opinion (which you don't really want to know) is that reliability is inversely proportional to Mickysoft product usage.

Fortunately I use Adobe Framemaker for most of my REAL work at work . .

G.