Yeah , I want to use this just like a real pc { within its limitations } and my plan is to buy more thin clients off ebay and use all my old OSes { dos6.22/win3.11 , win98, win98se, ubuntu, etc } and network them . I don't like VM , so I will go with the real McCoy . While flash is fast I think I will look for hdd capable thin clients for endurance . Maybe I'll try freedos like you suggest but I will be playing games and playing with batch files and changing the config.sys , etc. , etc. so there will be a lot of writes when I use it/them . Thanks for your answer .