[Info-vax] free shell accounts?

[Stan Radford]

On 2015-01-20, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> 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

Thanks for the info. I hope it comes back then. Sounds interesting and
fun. Does anybody know why it went offline?

Stan