> > Perhaps I wasn't clear - it is a VAX R4000-200.  The CPU I believe was one
> > of the precursors to the MIPS family (someone may be able to clear this
> > one up).
> 
> If it's a VAX is has some kind of VAX chip set, it has nothing to do with
> MIPS at all.

Aha!

> And since you seems to have installed VMS on it, could you please execute
> the following command in DCL:
> 
> $ SYSID = F$GETSYI("SID")
> $ SHOW SYM SYSID
> $ HW = F$GETSYI("HW_NAME")
> $ SHOW SYM HW
> 
> and report the output from the two SHOW SYM commands. This would make it
> possible to determine what kind of hardware you have.

Fantastic.  I will do this tonight, and let you know.

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