DECstation 5000 vs Decserver 5000

No difference at all. You can put a framebuffer in a DECsystem 5000 and it becomes a DECstation 5000. When you bought a CPU upgrade from DEC, you would get two faceplates. One that says DECstation and one that says DECsystem. They're MIPS-based. If you tell me what model it is, I can give you more information. You don't need to run Ultrix on them. If you want to run a more modern OS, you can run NetBSD/pmax on them. I have a *lot* of these machines. They're pretty nice. I've run them for years at home. You should just be able to do something like boot -s #/vmunix or something like that. Check http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax/ and click on Supported Hardware or something like that. It should have more information than you would even need. Peace... Sridhar On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Fred deBros wrote: