[Info-vax] free shell accounts?

[urbancamo]

On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:45:46 UTC, Bob Gezelter  wrote:
> 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

I'm in the process of making a serious effort to get a UK based public access VMS system up and running. I'm realistically probably several months away yet.

Regards, Mark.