I'd suggest getting more core. Our hp9000s were dogs until we upped from 2.5 to 5 Meg. Now they're preferable to the our VAX, because they usually have 2-3 users on 2 cpus vs 5-6 users on 1 vax cpu. Conor Rafferty conor at su-glacier.arpa 231A Applied Electronics Lab. conor at su-sierra.arpa Stanford University Ca.94305 decwrl!glacier!conor (415)497-1515