It also occured to me that if you want to be really pedantic, HP is squandering not 2 but 5 architectures... with at least 3 of current commercial value.... all on Itanic II 1. PA-RISC 2. Alpha 3. NonStop (ex-Tandem) (MIPS) -------- 4. VAX 5. HP-3000 (mpe) Whee...! Andrew