> I am afraid that there might be a problem because the program in question is
> fairly old; it's origins date back at least a decade, according to my
> co-worker.  On his machine at work (a P II, I think) a model takes over 24
> hours to run.  I think I may just install the program on my home machine and
> see if it runs under XP.

Is it possible to port this program to a newer OS? If one is going to go to this much trouble to 
run it, chances are others may be interested in running it, or a version of it. Just curious, no 
need for an answer: what does the program do? Is it worth porting?

-Jared