No man you got it all wrong ! Bill & company showed our man Steve how to Feature software ;-) In reality I have yet to see a smaller file if it was ppc native compared to a 68k version.That may be totaly off ...who knows. Don ------ On 12/31/98 8:13 AM, Wintermute wrote: >Hey guys, > I was just wondering about some stuff... > > I have been upgrading a used 7500 we inherited from 7.5.1 thru to >8.5.1 and have observed some incredible OS bloating in the amount of RAM >the OS takes.