[Info-vax] Redesign of http://h71000.www7.hp.com/ !

[Paul Sture]

In article <4e9e1d60$0$6905$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>,
 MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 19-10-2011 1:57, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > I run several on a DS10L.  What's so hard to believe?
> 
> Not really hard to believe, rather impressed.  I used to have an
> AlphaServer 1000 (4/266) and it wasn't always the fastest system
> around, but then I'm probably comparing it too much with the rx2600
> (that I got later on).
> 
> The DS10L is a lot more powerful on average.  I don't know how many
> traffic your websites generate, but if it's as many as the website
> of a big corporation like HP/Compaq/DEC, then I'm equally impressed.
> It's not so much that I don't have high expectations, it's rather
> that --- as I said --- I'm impressed how these trusty AlphaServers
> still very much live up to their expectations (combined with the
> excellence of VMS of course).
> 

To be fair it was only the VMS section of the site which was served by 
the AlphaServer.

OTOH I have memories of a pair of VAX 4000-100 and 2 x Alpha 4100 
systems in a cluster driving a production line with 3000 workers. Even 
VAXes could do a lot of work.

-- 
Paul Sture