I'd like to appeal to the net's NT wizards for a bit of advice.  First a general description of the machine as follows:  Motherboard: Utron 33 mhz Opti chipset, 20 meg memory, 256kb cache       (soon I hope to drop a DX2 chip into it)  Fahrenheit 1280 video (1 meg, 1024x768x256)  ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound board  primary disk = Connor CP30174 on a caching IDE controller  secondary disk = Conner CP30174 as slave on same controller  tertiary disk = Fujitsu ??? 650 meg on Superstore ESDI controller  planned future disks include SCSI HD and CD ROM on PAS16 SCSI port  Tape drive is a Colorado Jumbo 250 on the Floppy controller   future tape drive may be a DAT on the SCSI interface.  Other hardware includes modem/fax, serial ports, and a teletext board  (ugly dos software drives the latter)  Applications used include normal windows stuff (excel, word, Quicken and Turbo Pascal/Windows) but the important stuff is my Audio work environment which includes Turtle beach Wave for Windows, MCS Stereo, and other misc stuff for dinking around with audio files.  Also I use Stacker on the primary drive, HP Newwave (for my wife's use, and she  won't let me get rid of it!), and a product called Infinite Disk from  Chili Pepper Software for hierarchical storage management of my seldom  used offline files.    I plan to upgrade to NT, when it becomes a released product.  I was stongly tempted to become a beta user early on, but I don't have time to mess around with the hassles of beta software.  I expect to buy it, tear off the  shrink wrap, and use it without hassle (I know, unrealistic, but I can hope can't I, after all, I have work to do).  The advice I want concerns the state of NT regarding device drivers, and  hardware specific stuff in general.  How smoothly can I expect the  upgrade to go?  Can I expect support for all my stuff, or do I still need to scramble around downloading drivers (PAS?, Orchid?, Colorado?)  from some bbs, etc.  What steps should I take to ensure the installation goes smoothly.  Note that I want to nuke dos totally from the system.  I'm allergic to command lines!  I plan to run a "pure" NT system.  Also, will  NT communicate with the workgroups lan?  What about stacker?  I currently  have stacker on the first disk drive.  Without Stacker, and the Infinite  Disk product, I will have great difficulty fitting everything I have on the  system (It's cramped now).  I realize Stacker will be incompatible with NT, but will there be an NT  version?  Or will NT support compression a la Dos 6?  I know Infinite Disk will be incompatible with NT, but will they offer (or does anybody else) a comparable product for NT and at what cost?  (perhaps I need to ask  Chili Pepper that question)  I can live without ID if I have to, but I'd rather not.  Will NT run my DOS apps (the teletext board mainly) without DOS on the system?  What do I need to keep around?  Any feedback or advice (including "forget NT" with good reasons) is much appreciated.  My only significant reason for moving to NT is I need a better multitasking environment than Windows (among other reasons, WAVE locks up the machine for hours and hours doing DSP processing on large audio files), and I want better lan support than I now have (Internet access, etc).  Maybe there are better solutions than NT and if so, I would appreciate hearing  about them (OS/2?  What's it's status these days?)  Pls respond by email and if there is interest I'll summarize for the net.