[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2012-04-21 07:45:
> In article<jmsje0$kq1$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>
>>> 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. :-)
>
> Or RAM with battery-backup, which I think existed on some VAXes.
>

"Emulated core memory"... :-)