You're quite right Kari about the Multia. I bought one with 40 MB memory and VMS would boot but crash all by itself within 20 minutes on an otherwise idle system. The memory was replaced with 256 MB memory and the Multia was more useful afterwards. The heat problem remains though and adding all that memory didn't exactly reduce the inside temperature. So it's a winter-only system. :) Hans -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] Namens Kari Uusim ki Verzonden: vrijdag, juli 2010 20:42 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] FreeAXP Alpha Emulator On 16.7.2010 19:57, Zane H. Healy wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Sampsa Laine wrote: Guys, just saw this on openvmshobbyist.com: FreeAXP http://www.migrationspecialties.com/FreeAXP.html#Components It emulates a AlphaServer 400 with up to 7 drives and 128 MB of RAM. Runs on Windows though :( I'm currently rolling out a test system to see how well it behaves on Win2K3 Server. Sampsa Have you ever run an Alpha with only 128MB of RAM? That is the absolute bare minimum I'd run 7.2 in, and it wasn't fun. I really wish they'd allow between 192MB and 256MB, as at that point it starts being usable. Of course I'd also like a Linux version. :-) Zane . I have. Even with 64MB. ;-) It was a DEC3000-300X back in 1993 with AXPVMS V1.5 and also with OSF/1 V2.x and 3.0. I have also tested a Multia with 64MB and VMS V7.3. It worked, but was really slow. I wasn't expecting much more than bootability. The Multia is slow (EV4/166MHz or EV4/233MHz) and 64MB is the absolute minimum for AXPVMS. Kari Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.839 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3009 - datum van uitgifte: 07/16/10 08:35:00