Paul Koning wrote: Excerpt of message (sent 20 August 2009) by Marc Chametzky: The recent downtime thread has sparked much discussion about a variety of DEC (and perhaps some Compaq) hardware, but who among us is living in HECnet lives in software? Right now I'm not on HECnet -- someday not too long from now, I hope. That will be a DECnet/E system emulated in E-11. I do have a Pro or two, but I'm a bit hesitant to hook that up -- it would have to be by DDCMP. I suppose it should work, if I hook it to the E-11 based system and have that be a router. paul I'm also currently not on HECnet, but it's a future goal. I have a small herd of Alphas and Integrity systems but no actual VAXen nor PDP's. I hope to create some using VMware's ESXi virtual platform on some HP DL380 G3's that I have. I"m looking into Simh fo rthe VAX and PDP-11's and KLH-10 for a PDP-10 John H. Reinhardt