<> Well.... I dont know about those "minimum RAM requirements"... I've been <> getting away with running V7.2 on a VS3100/38 with 4 megs of RAM and a <> single RZ23 in it for a bit... can't do much with it though :) You can bet the system is slow though. It takes a lot of swapping to run at all in that little. get another 4mb and you'll be plesently surprized. <I don't know if I should be scared or impressed :^) I'm surprised the V7. <even let you do the install! What can I say, I'm impressed! VMS does have a minimum and it's somewhere between 2.5 and 3.2mb for V7 as that much ram must be present for the "core" system for the resident portion to run. The rest is swappable. Allison