Gentlemen, I have finally managed to get my rx2600 running, it's accesible on HECnet with the host name RHESUS (1.403). It's a dual Itanium 900MHz, 8 GB of RAM, one 146 GB disk running OpenVMS 8.3-1H1. Let me know if you want an account, esp. for stuff like porting software across to IA64. Sampsa