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Robert, I am a student at the "Fachhochschule Furtwangen" (a kind of university) in Furtwangen, Germany. They bought 13 Alpha-Workstations (OSF/Motif) and a server with 512 MB Ram to run Sap R3 on it. R3 is a realtime-system for every part of an enterprise (bill of costs, stockpiling, sales etc.), best program I have ever seen in this domain (but you have to pay some million $ for it). Since I could use the workstation as I like I am very interested to render on them. They are extremely powerful, but I think you know that. As you said there is no other version of 3D-Studio but for dos. Windows NT may change this, but this will take time and NT will never run on Alpha-Workstations, only on PCs (150Mhz). But there may be a possibility to get Render Man. I don't know if this program can render 3ds-Files, but I know that there is a version for Ultrix-workstations. To use it on Alpha-OSF, you just have to recompile it, changing very few or nothing. Even if you only have the compiled object-code, you can migrate it to Alpha by a program sold by DEC. It will take speed of course, but the Alpha will still be fast than any PC, I think. There are also people who will migrate a program you send them for you for a few $. My problem at the moment is that I don't get the address of Pixar (they wrote Render Man). They don't have a representation in Germany, and the USA – address I've got seems to be old, I couldn't get their telephone-number till now. The address I have is: Pixar, 3240 Kerner boulevard St. Raphael, CA 490901 USA If you make it to contact them in any way, please send me a note. I will inform you of any new things in this matter, also. regards, Holger