This tidbit is from: An EvangeLista Who Wishes to Remain Anonymous There's an old anecdote in the Mac community that when someone (Steve Jobs?) told Seymour Cray that they used one of his super computers to design Macintoshes he laughed and said, "That's funny; I used a Mac to design my new Cray." At the micro-chip level, history repeats itself. I'll explain... There are only a few companies in the world that develop and sell the photo-resistive goo ("photo resist") that is used to manufacture microprocessor chips. Ours is one. And although our customers include Motorola, IBM, AND Intel, our company - with only a few exceptions - is totally Wintel. A year or so ago one of our R&D engineers started researching a high-end SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) System capable of generating analysis and reports. He eventually settled on a state-of-the art system. Made by a company called KLA, this clean-room device, the KLA 8100, consists of a SEM controlled by an impressive and elaborate Super Card front-end running on (you guessed already, didn't you?) a Macintosh. The local Novell Engineers were appalled that a Macintosh could get past them disguised as a sophisticated lab instrument and they were astounded that it had no need for a Novell print queue. Their jaws dropped as the Mac queried the printer and automatically selected the correct PPD driver file. When they saw the engineer remotely control the SEM Mac from another Mac using Timbuktu, they were speechless. But there's more! There were two Macs because the KLA "control" system passes data to another Mac which analyzes it in a number of ways, including running Excel macros against it. After six months or so the SEM engineer decided he needed a faster system. The IS guys tried to convince him that Wintel was the way to go. But he was sold on a Macintosh 9600/300. And since it was his budget and he showed them that the only way to get a faster Intel box was to buy a dual processor NT system for more than twice the money, he got the 9600! When he threatened to move the 9600 to his office down the hall and get rid of his PC, IS forbid him from using the Mac on his desktop! What did he do? He bought Virtual PC and ran all his desktop applications in emulation from his lab! And once again dazzled everyone with the flexibility of the Mac. Just remember, Macs are faster, Macs are easier, Macs are more fun, and Macs help make the stuff that Pentiums are made from!!