In the original post I was fishing for some possibility of using the underlying os more directly then doing a linux dual boot approach. It's my understanding that the os is in the unix/linux family, the "bst" term comes to mind as a unix/linux workalike as the mac os being used. If it is so related, can pine and lynx etc. be compiled and used instead of doing a dual boot linux thing? Further, what speech approach might be possible? I ask again about doing dosemu in either case, will dos talk to the mac hardware? Thanks XB IC|XC