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Gus, Actually, you can get the Pentium card for $1,699 and $1,999 directly from Digital, trading in any 486 board. The Alpha AXP board will also be priced bellow $2,000. I can get a DEC XL Pentium/60 box with PCI bus and up to 192MB, with PCI SCSI-II onboard, 340MB SCSI2 HD, double-speed CDROM for $3,699 now. Is that a good price or not? 🙂 And squeezing that computer for a year and then buy the AXP board when I need the upgrade is a bad business? I have been in many press conferences regarding the AXP, and looking the results when comparing to a R4400 machines… well, I will get the Alpha with my eyes closed anytime. And this is not only about computer power, a real upgradability path like the DEC XL provides a lot of things for the 3ds user. If finally a NT version of 3ds is not released, I will be able to upgrade it to as many Pentiums and Sextiums Intel release <g> Seriously, I think that the DEC is a VERY good system for many people who depends now on DOS, but want to have their doors open to other options at a very reasonable cost. I am personally dying to leave Intel-land, but have a business now that need their processors (now). If someone comes with a system like the XL and put that price quote… it sounds like heaven to me. ana /krazy images