The AViiON's were made by Data General, of NOVA fame. The first models appeared 1991 or therebouts. These used the (then) new Motorola 88000 RISC processor chip set. They made desktop (AV-300) and deskside (AV-400,500) workstations, as well as multi-processor servers (AV-8000's for example). The first ones were kinda slow, owing to the 1st generation RISC processor and a rather overweight UNIX port (DG/UX). Later multi-processor machines (some had as many as eight, IIRC) using the 88110 processor were much faster. Mot dropped the ball (as usual) in the mid-90's and abandoned the 88000 in favor of the PowerPC*. When this happened, DG shifted over to the 'Dark Side' (i.e. Intel) and have done nothing remarkable after that. IMNHO, only 88k AViiONs are really worth keeping (unless you're *really* into WINNT). DG/UX is okay, I guess; but I mostly like the fact that technical docs are available for at least one model (AV-530), and it has VME cardslots. *Footnote: What's truly tragic, is that Apple was preparing to manufacture 88000-based mac's (several prototypes were built in the early nineties). This project was squashed by internal politics, however. On 7 Jun 2001 1:59:57 +0100 "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se> writes: ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.