>>> >>>Yes, because Oracle relied on the existence of such in the >>>real OS environments it ran on. As opposed to the sad joke >>>Windoze was at the time. This however has changed. If >>>anything, the "multi-threaded" servers of those databases - >>>which never were such, just simple time-sharing round-robbin >>>threads - Oh boy. Something tells me you haven't had your hands in the Informix DSA code as much as I have. The threads scheduler in that database server was anything BUT "simple time-sharing round-robin threads". It was a brilliant database-smart scheduler and as long as it ran on a good OS, you very seldon saw more than 5% of your processor cycles lost to kernel mode...and that even at extremely high IO rates. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l