[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

John Wallace wrote 2012-04-21 12:09:
> On Apr 20, 10:11 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Restart in modern context is nothing to do with core (or even battery
> backed) memory. RESTART actually means "see if there's a crash dump in
> memory, and if there is, write the dump before rebooting".

I was probably thinking about CONTINUE which is of course
something else... :-)

Jan-Erik.