<< off topic >> I'll ignore all references to the HP3000 and IMAGE and go ahead and mention a lotto number crunching program I wrote in QBASIC that has been running on a dedicated PC since December 1995. OK I admit I've had to temporarily pause it in order to upgrade the PC, but it remains a program with a single task to perform. If it *had* completed then it's quite likely I would have retired very early and gone into the hotel business on some Greek island. The number of combinations it has to theoretically test is derived from the equation : a! / (a-b)! * b!, where a=13983816 and b=759. I'm pretty bad at math myself, but I make it 12 thousand trillion trillion (not a typo). Now, with it's present rate of about 20 billion combinations a day, and again if my math and my Windows95 calculator isn't failing me, that translates to 25 years. So, I'm hoping for a *major* breakthrough in PC technology which will increase todays performance by a factor of, let's say, 10. That way it might just complete before the year 2000 :) << off topic >> Your question however, reminds me of another question posted quite some time ago entitled "MPE Language Survey". That post requested responses to be sent to an e-mail address other than the list. As I mentioned in a private post entitled "Bangalore", I don't recall ever reading the outcome of that survey. Anything worth mentioning ? Costas Anastassiades, INTRACOM SA, Athens - Greece