[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:56:55 +0200, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> John Wallace wrote 2012-04-21 12:09:
>> 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... :-)
> 

Ah yes, on my first 11/780 I got the job of testing an in house print 
spooler.  This ran at a high priority (15?) by default which would have 
been fine if it had been properly debugged first :-)

When it got into an argument with some other component, the least 
disruptive way of killing it was to do alternate CTRL/P and C(ONTINUE) 
commands on the console until you got a PC in user space. Then you could 
deposit zero in that PC and CONTINUE

Crude but effective.

The outcome of that was that I proposed that we junk that component and 
provide user friendly API wrappers for queuing print jobs. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture