There are a few people trying to get Linux to work on a DEC 3000 www.alphalinux.org (which is now back online) pointed me to these pages: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~prescott/linux/alpha/dec3000-port.html http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~armhold/linux/alpha-3000.html so don't give up hope yet. :) - Matt