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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kc4l71$gai$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> Alpha loads AlphaBIOS, which gets you nowhere with booting VMS.

That is the case on the PWS.  Didn't older ALPHAs always boot properly, 
even without a battery?

> 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.

Isn't there a timeout after which it stops asking for the time?