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I am planning on buying a VMS workstation soon but my budget is restrained.  At
a pinch I can buy a VS3100 with 19" mono screen and CD-ROM, but only by
borrowing from the bank and selling my car!

Now that the VS2000 is out of production it is likely that I can pick one up for
(hopefully) less than $8000 (Australian -- new price was in the region of
$16K-$20K) for a standalone system.  Whatever I buy I intend to run VMS V5.x
with DECWindows, and the CD-ROM strikes me as being a huge advance in
distribution media, especially if you get the documentation for most DEC
products (let alone the programs).  Hence these questions:

1. Given enough memory, can a VS2000 run DECwindows as a stand-alone machine and
   not be to slow to be useful?

2. Is it possible to connect a CD-ROM drive to the VS2000?  I suspect not as the
   VS2000 does not have a bus.  Perhaps it can be made to look like a hard disk
   and plug into a disk drive connector?

        Jeremy Begg

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