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

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:41:36 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the offer but I no longer have a system of that vintage. FWIW 
I held off upgrading to V5.4 because it would have left me precious 
little space for any of my stuff on the RD54 that system had.



-- 
Paul Sture