Well, I can't tell you what sort of RAM it uses. I can say that I think it's ultrasparc, if it's the HAL I'm thinking of. They used to have an advertisement along the lines of "Still using a 32-bit workstation? Why be normal?" That might give you some idea of time-frame. They were very nice for SPARCs in their day. They were also supposed to be somewhat more modular than their SUN counterparts. I believe Unix Review did at least one article on them. I think they've stopped printing Unix Review now, but that a web publication still exists. (Could be wrong there...) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '