Thanks for the feedback.

OSF looked nice in the little time I had to tinker with it, but I'd prefer
to have NetBSD on it. This box is to replace my i386 box running NetBSD
1.6.

I do AIX support to pay the bills and having to endure one commercial UNIX
is enough for me :)

--et


> I do not own an AS800 myself (it's a pity though) but I guess like other
> Alphas it will go automagically to serial if it detects that there is no
> keyboard plugged in (9600 8N1). A quite nice box indeed, you should feel
> yourself lucky to get one for a bargain (or free?). I can't help you
> with the SWXCR because of ENOCLUE but I believe DEC/Compaq/HP should
> provide at least some essential support for it, just search/look around
> on their website. If there is a working Digital UNIX / Tru64
> installation on it, you should consider to keep it as this machine is
> powerful enough to run even the latest Tru64 versions efficiently (given
> enough RAM is in there but I suspect if there is an SWXCR there should
> be plenty of RAM, too).
>
> Regards,
> Szabolcs Rumi