The Alpha should be faster if it doesn't happen to be a say DEC3000-300L. :-) I assume the DEFQA could be installed into a MicroVAX II, but I've never seen such a setup. Zane H. Healy wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Kari Uusim ki wrote: first when you do a disk shadow copy and second when you boot a satellite over the Ethernet. This is where I've always wanted to play with FDDI. I'd love to boot a MicroVAX II off of either a high end VAX or an Alpha via a FDDI link. I'm curious as to which would be faster. Running the MicroVAX II off of native disks, or over the FDDI link. Zane