[Info-vax] The dangers of extended uptime. Was: Re: swap and page files

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-03 18:37:32 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt said:

> Favorite reason for SPARC systems not comming back is that the battery
> in the TOY clock has failed. Ones I remember won't boot at all with it
> down. For x86, I don't know.

VAX and Alpha have that feature, too.
Alpha loads AlphaBIOS, which gets you nowhere with booting VMS.
VAX prompts for the time.  Or boots with a wacky time on older versions, IIRC.
Haven't encountered a dead battery in an Itanium.  Yet.


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