[Info-vax] free shell accounts?

[Matthew H McKenzie]

No issues so far, but it is not a cluster, Deathrow could lose a node and 
still be usable. Of course recompilation was necessary across architectures 
and not everything is 100% portable. They have a log of incidents if you 
wish to look at recent history.

Should be OK for generic DCL, COBOL, C etc.  on a "best effort basis". 
Better than emulation at least.

"Stan Radford" <sradford at noemail.net> wrote in message 
news:m9lcq7$q12$1 at speranza.aioe.org...
> 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
>