[Info-vax] Checkpoint/restart

[FredK]

"Tom Linden" <tom at kednos.company> wrote in message 
news:op.usenxej0hv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net...
> 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

To be honest, I believe that at the time I was writing graphics software for 
the Pro-350.  My ex was in VAXworks that did most of the field training for 
new VMS releases.  My 3rd hand knowledge of the issues is rather stale.

There have been a number of interesting projects over the years that for one 
reason or another never came to fruition and some that took multiple starts 
before someone could work out all the kinks.