[Info-vax] swap and page files

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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!
> 

Some do, some don't.

VAXstation 4000 systems will halt, sooner or later, if the line to the 
console terminal is unplugged ..

Usually sooner ..