6 Dec
2024
6 Dec
'24
2:52 a.m.
On 12/5/2024 9:19 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
Your just lucky no one decided to run the Ada compiler. Nothing
can bring a VAX to its knees better than that. Not even Eunice!!
bill
On 12/5/2024 5:51 PM, Wayne S wrote:
> Oh. You didn’t specify the host type, although an esp MAY be fast
> enough. The Vax wasn’t that fast to begin with and ran in less than 4
> MB memory so maybe…
The first VAX 11/780 I used came with 512 KB of memory. One Friday
afternoon, it crashed and I ran diags and found a memory board had died,
and pulled the bad one out. We had to run on 256KB over the weekend
until DEC could come out and swap it. It ran a HUGE finite element
analysis. I warned everybody to restrict number of logons and other
processes.