On Feb 13, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: ... There are faster network interfaces for VAXen, just not Ethernet. It still wouldn't be an "apples to apples" comparison, but it'd be closer. True -- FDDI would fit the bill. The hard part is finding the infrastructure. And while FDDI to 10 Mb/s Ethernet bridges are common enough, FDDI to fast Ethernet is probably harder to find. (I'm not sure what DEC products, if any, offer that. Gigaswitch, perhaps?) paul