Hi, a little OT, but interesting for those, who didn't know. Compaq sold Alpha to Intel. www.compaq.com/newsroom/pr/2001/pr2001062501.html A sad day indeed. Regards, kirk -- Thomas Weyergraf kirk@colinet.de My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.