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>> to the Alpha may work out fine. Now here's one for you. Could you >> take the pentium chip off the daughtercard when upgrading to the Alpha >> chip and plug the pentium into an old 486 with a zif socket? It couldn't >> be that easy could it? No you could not. The socket you see in these 486's are for a watered down version of the Pentium called P24. This is a 32 bit version as opposed the the full 64 bit. You could, however, buy a Pentium motherboard, put the Pentium in it and replace the 486 motherboard. On the other hand, DEC is charging $2,500 for the Pentium option (that's for the daughtercard). I could get a fairly decent computer for that amount of money. Have you seen the NEC with two Mips R4400? All that for less than 10k?