Bah, it's a VAX, it should be running VMS. I totally fail to understand why, especially now that licenses are free for hobbyist use, anyone would want to run UNIX on a VAX! A system like that should be part of a nice VMS cluster! Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

OK, I see the problem is now, I'm not a big BSD fan, despite being a big UNIX fan. If I was a BSD fan then I'd probably be interested in having it running on one of my PDP-11's or VAXen, as it is I do have OpenBSD running on one of my Alpha's as VMS doesn't support what I need that system to do. Also, I can see where a production VMS system wouldn't be a lot of fun, but since I've got my own cluster I find it a blast to play with, and am currently playing around with a little programming, when I can find the time. Another downside of VMS is you can't just run down to the local bookstore to find books on it, although the local techinical bookstore does get a few in. Still as a OS nut, I maintain that VMS is the right OS for VAXen :^) Mainly because I like to run as many different OS's as possible, and I'm quite happy only running 2 or three flavors of UNIX. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |