[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2012-04-20 21:35:

>
> Right.  This is why, in addition to HALT, there are both BOOT and
> RESTART options at the console.  These control what happens after a
> power cycle.  HALT stays at the console prompt, BOOT boots and RESTART
> tries to pick up where it left off, with the assumption that the
> contents of memory are still good...

I guess that RESTART is a left-over from the "core" days.
Core memory keep it's data even without power. :-)

Jan-Erik.