Well... My VAXstation 4000 VLC is quite fast! A little planning and some tuning and away you go. The Multinet Gateway here is a VS4000/VLC. It does have 24MB of memory - highly recommended and, 1.28GB of disk space for a system disk. It's also one of the quietest VAXen I have ever dealt with. The other VS4K/VLC is my workstation. It runs DW-MOTIF at a fairly good clip. I have no complaints and you can't beat the size and the lack of heat produced! -Steve On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:29 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote: Am I remembering correctly that in order to have a DECnet Phase IV area router you need to be running a VAX? Can Phase V act as an area router? I'm contemplating figuring out what Alpha has the lowest power requirements, and bringing it online in place of MONK (a very power hungry XP1000 with plenty of external drives). Then again a VAX would probably pull even less. Believe it or not, the "killer app" that I'm having a hard time living without is DEC Document. Zane My power consumption page might help a bit: http://lakesdev.blogspot.com/2008/09/power-consumption-of-computers-and.html The VAXstation 4000/VLC takes the lowest power but at about 6 VUPS it is quite slow. The 4000/60 and 4000/90 (BUBBLE) take about 100 Watts, which is twice as much, but are *so* much more usable. In terms of alpha, the lowest power I've found so far is the Alphaserver 300 4/266 (TIGER) which clocks at about 100 watts. The Alphaserver 1000A runs at about 180 watts which is pretty good given the expansion possibilities (it has a BA356 8 drive enclosure built in). I'm currently running a BUBBLE and TIGER 24/7 which is a VAX and Alpha node for 200 watts total. Mark.