What do I call my PDP-11?

[top-posting and entire-quoting repaired manually -dM] I'm not sure *I* do. But the only thing I can think of is that SunOS (and quite possibly Solaris) ping doesn't act like BSD ping (reporting individual packets) unless specifically told to with a flag; instead, it just reports liveness. And the message when a machine is up is of the form "%s is alive"; this leads to amusement when the target machine is named elvis. That's why I said that you need Sun OSes rather than SPARC machines. I, for exmaple, have lots of SPARCs at home and not one of them exhibits such behaviour, because I'm not running any Sun OSes. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B