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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: 1 Nov 2024 12:54:03 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>VMS had one horrible problem.  When it ran out of virtual ram, you were 
>toast.  It could not survive that event and required a hard reboot.  It 
>happened on several of our Vaxen.

This was true under 4.7 and maybe under some other pre-5.2 versions too.
The manuals very specifically warned you to make sure your pagefile.sys
and swapfile.sys were large enough.  It did get fixed.  The way that VMS
handled paging and swapping space differently was kind of interesting and
allowed some useful performance tuning on machines with limited core.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."