[Info-vax] Checkpoint/restart

[Tom Linden]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:09:53 -0700, FredK <fred.nospam at dec.com> wrote:

>
> "glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
> news:gs0ekc$mmd$1 at naig.caltech.edu...
>> Tom Linden <tom at kednos.company> wrote:
>>
>>> Checkpoint restart.  Of course putting that into Unix might be a
>>> challenge.
>>
>> I used to have the Program Logic Manual for the OS/360
>> Checkpoint/Restart facility.  I never knew anyone to use it,
>> and didn't know that other systems had it.
>>
>> -- glen
>
> VMS had it... briefly in field test form.  I threw the training  
> information
> on it out a few years ago.  It had problems, and was yanked - never to
> return.
>
Fred,

Just curious, were you able to trace the problems back to kernel
deficiencies.  With Gnosis from Tymshare and layer Keykos they seemed
to have resolved the problems.

Tom

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