[Info-vax] swap and page files

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kc4hpq$ao7$5 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> 
> 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.)

   Reminds me of the time our LA36 console died on one of our 11/780.
   We had no spare LA36, and none of our VT100 had the current loop
   interface that the consoles used.

   We had two competely different setups with two completely different
   sets of disk platters (RP06), so we had to be able to reboot.
   Different applications, different data, different SYSGEN parameters,
   differet UAF contents, sometimes different VMS versions, ...

   I showed the operations folks how to tell that SHUTDOWN.COM had
   probably finished, and how to use the front panel toggle switches
   to force a reboot.

   Ran just fine that way until the next day, when the parts came in.

   Consoles?  We don't need no stinkin' consoles!