Hiyas, OK. Yes, it *is* there. And running. I managed to install a fairly weird tape kit containing V2.0 BL8 of DEC's OSF/1 UNIX offering for their MIPS-based "DECstation" line of systems. It actually runs pretty good. Even on a very small machine (the first test system was a DS2100 (12.5MHz R2000 with 24MB ;-) it works fine. Even LAT works like a charm :) I can see why they didnt release this one, though.. it is quite raw, unfinished in many areas (I had to really work and tweak stuff before I got a prompt..) and they obviously never intended this to work on serial-console systems :) But.. yay. It works, now. Just for the record: ----------------------------------------------------------------- (vaxlab)$ telnet mipsfair Trying 10.0.11.89... Connected to mipsfair. Escape character is '^]'. OSF/1 (mipsfair) (ttyp0) login: root Password: DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8 (Rev. 155); Sun Nov 14 21:45:24 MET 1999 DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8.1 Worksystem Software (Rev. 133) The installation software has successfully installed your system. There are logfiles which contain a record of your installation. These are: /var/adm/smlogs/install.log - general log file /var/adm/smlogs/it.log - log for it(8) utility /var/adm/smlogs/install.FS.log - file system creation logs /var/adm/smlogs/setld.log - log for the setld(8) utility /var/adm/smlogs/fverify.log - verification log file # uname -a OSF1 mipsfair 2.0 2.0 mips # ----------------------------------------------------------------- For those who would like to play with it, contact me off-list. If you happen to have OSF stuff lying around [*and* know where to find it *evil smile*..] drop me a line, please! Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA