Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: Well, given the number of x86s running some variant of Unix, it looks like they had the right idea, but too early. Imagine Solaris on a Sun 686i.... :-) Well, two things... First, remember that this was 1989, so Windows is not an issue. Basically, it had to be able to run Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics, Word Perfect, etc. Second, SunPC and the hardware card have their roots all the way back to the Sun 3 era. IIRC, there was a VME bus 286 coprocessor card. Supposedly there was a couple of protypes, but that's all. IMHO, the real problem with the 386i was the same one as with the AT&T UnixPC. Basically, it wasn't a real engineering workstation, so the traditional Sun buyers couldn't get interested and it wasn't a PC, so the suits couldn 't get interested. To some degree this split still exists. SunPC, Wabi, etc. are all great products, but their real demand, when all is said and done, is to allow a few "key" applications (MS Office, mostly) to run in an otherwise pure Unix environment. <<<John>>> P.S. Out of curiousity, how "interesting" is a 386i from a collectability standpoint? I may have an opportunity to get one, but is it really worth it?