[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Scott Dorsey]

Bob Eager  <news0009 at eager.cx> wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:19:30 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> IBM guys would not have.  My boss would have said that if it can't back
>> up the DASDs with the CPU halted than it wasn't a real mainframe.
>
>I know it was probably later on, but couldn't you do that with MSCP disks?

I don't know.  I have never seen anyone use more than a tiny fraction of
what MSCP is capable of, so I would not be surprised if it had I/O channel
type features like that.
--scott

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