Re: Funniest Ask-the-Wizard question and answer of all time

In article <GFNvQzetv7Hn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
koehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Koehler) wrote:

In article <ed3me3$lu0$2@xxxxxxxxx>, helbig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Phillip
Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:

As a hobbyist with 15 VAXes at home and also a Fortran95 afficianado, I
can appreciate the request, but ask "why not add an ALPHA to your
cluster?". In the past few weeks, I've manage to collect 7 EV4 and EV45
ALPHAs for free (or perhaps a beer and a lunch or whatever), so they are
there if you look.

I have an Alpha in my cluster. But I was working on code that I
wanted to run on all my systems, had worked NAM$ vs. NAML$ issues
by using Fortran-9x features (VAXen don't have NAML$), only to realize
my VAX couldn't compile it at all.

I tend to develope first on my Alpha, then port to my VAX. This one
wasn't a recompile.

I am curious. Do many other people develop on Alpha, then port to VAX? I
came across one company that did this about a decade ago; they had
plenty of spare resources for development work on Alpha, where the VAXes
were pretty full with production work.

--
Paul Sture
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