[Info-vax] EISNER is moving again this week

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/26/2024 4:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <uril3c$2m8au$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Hunter Goatley  <goathunter at goatley.com> wrote:
>> EISNER will be moving again soon---as in this week, if all goes well.
>>
>> In fact, the system is being replaced. VSI has hosted the physical
>> system for the past few years, but Process Software will be taking over
>> hosting, and the machine is being replaced by a vtAlpha system, thanks
>> to AVT and Vere Technologies, who generously donated a license for the
>> system.
>>
>> With Rob's help, we transferred the contents of all of the disks
>> yesterday, and I now have virtual EISNER up and running in-house. We
>> still have some networking work to do before we can switch the systems,
>> and I'll need to re-transfer the user disks next week to pick up files
>> created or modified since yesterday.
>>
>> Whichever day this happens, I plan to shut down access to EISNER while
>> we move the data and change the DNS entries. Hopefully, access to the
>> system will only be down for a few hours, whichever day that is.
> 
> Purely out of curiosity, why not host it on x86?

Probably some software not available on x86-64 (or Itanium
since it is Alpha).

Notes maybe.

Arne