[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:36:23 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
wrote:

> 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.

That's my recollection too.  As far as I could tell, on an 11/780 without 
battery-backed memory RESTART always gave you a reboot.

-- 
Paul Sture