[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<816e1dc5-166f-4faa-a24c-0721f5f8a3f0 at g38g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes: 

> 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". 

But at a VAX console, I think it actually refers to continuing from 
battery-backed memory after a power cycle.  This was 25 or 30 years ago, 
of course.