> ... Penalties could include free upgrades of hardware and/or software >to meet that reliablity goal at no charge to the end-user customer. Why only focus on reliability? Might be a good idea to also keep an eye on throughput/performance... I recall an MPE application vendor (the name escapes me at the moment ;-) that sold an MPE N-class with two 440 Mhz CPUs to have their application replace some Unix based application that was running on two V-class machines... Lars. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *