[Info-vax] free shell accounts?

[Bob Gezelter]

On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 6:05:52 AM UTC-5, Stan Radford wrote:
> On 2015-01-20, Matthew H McKenzie <news.deleteme at swellhunter.org> wrote:
> > OK, Vax and Alpha are running 7.3 (whereas as gein.vistech.net was running 
> > 8.4, whilst it was running...)
> > They have an IA64 running 8.4  The Alpha is slower than the deathrow
> > Alpha.
> 
> Thank you. That looks pretty good. Do you use their services often and have
> you had any problems with the system not being available when you wanted it?
> 
> How is the response time and performance? I never used deathrow so I have no
> feeling for how fast their Alpha was or what that would mean in practice. In
> other words are those shells practical for a serious coding session or does
> the performance slow you down and make you start pulling your hair out etc.
> 
> Stan

Stan,

Deathrow performance was fine. There is some lag compared to a local terminal as all echo must roundtrip through the Internet. Compiling and execution are generally quite fast (on both I64 and Alpha).

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com