<Alfredo wrote> <ABCs snipped> >Have you read "The Emperor's New Clothes" to your kids recently? It is an >excellent warm-up exercise for your ABC project :-) > >I look forward to your childlike innocent little questions. > _______________ Yippee! 'childlike innocent little questions' is what I do best ;-) I heard a while ago (I forget from who) that Oracle actually runs better errrrr, ummmmm, less poorly on an HP3000 than it does on a unix system because an MPE system 'can be performance tuned deeper into the operating system' than unix can. Is this true?.. does it make any sense at all?? Steve