In a message dated 96-09-19 14:27:34 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Therm-O-Link) writes: << According to the "Notes From the Field" column in Infoworld's 9/16 issue: "A sales rep for HP said the company will support NT on its "minicomputer boxes."" Are they talking "minicomputer" as in HP3000, or "minicomputer" as in HP9000? >> Perhaps the sales rep was refering to NT running on PA-RISC architecture machines. However, August '95 in Toronto, Wim Rowlands from HP stated that NT would NEVER run on PA-RISC. As NT scales upward and takes on larger loads, a PA-RISC based processor would be a great idea. Already DEC Alpha boxes run NT at great speed. Whilst the Intel-based servers (Pentiums and Pentium Pros) can be had in multi-CPUs (up to eight way with 4.0, I believe), I still like a larger single processor. I have now installed 2 HP Net Servers in the last few weeks and I am getting ready to install 3 more within the next month (The HP Net Servers are now my prefered NT server platform). I am planning the deployment of a large client-server based system running on MS SQL Server 6.5 and as I scale the project, it would be nice to know that I could remain on HP hardware for the server, even if I scaled up to a large NT server. I might have in the past moaned about HP's decision not to port NT to PA-RISC, I cannot remember for sure :-). BTW, Wim Rowlands left HP in early 1996. Maybe that sales rep has heard certain things ? One can only hope. Kind regards, Denys. . .