[Info-vax] Fastboot, was: Databases versus RMS

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In article <fq4d69-cs6.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
>On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:18:40 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
>{...snip...}
>> 
>> Fast-boot, implemented by Ed Los et al.  It was there in V6.x of VMS for
>> VAX but it was quickly made an obsolete feature.  I used to use it on my
>> MicroVAX-2000 and VAXstation-2000.  It would have VMS up and running in
>> under 15 seconds on my 2000s
>
>I could have definitely used that on my VAXstation 2000, but I never took 
>it to V6.  Was that functionality in V5.n?

IIRC, it was introduced with V6 but it's possible that it might have been
available in the latter releases of V5.  I can check the sources to get a
better answer for you but not today.  I'm going to a CD release party and
need to get the camera kit prepped.

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