[Info-vax] swap and page files

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-1EA2F8.13344903012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> I had a test rig which was a pair of Alpha PWS systems clustered 
> together.  Due to lack of rack space I shared the console, keayboard and 
> mouse between them, simply swapping the cables from one to the other on 
> the rare occasions it was required.
> 
> The first time I swapped the cables with a Sun guy observing he gasped 
> and said "You couldn't do that on a Sun".

:-) 

With ALPHAs no problem.  With VAXes, at least some wanted to have the 
console always switched on, at least during boot.  (ALPHAs will even 
boot with the console switched off or not even present.)