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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Subject: Re: ? power outages and file system corruption
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        (Terry Lambert) <terry@lambert.org>
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Hi Wilko Bulte;  On 26-Aug-97 you wrote: 

...

>  These things are mostly used for NFS servers. Called 'Prestoserve'
>  and not limited to only Sun machines. I think there is even a special
>  NVRAM SIMM you can put into your Sparcstation.

That was a standard feature on all DEC Vax 7xx.  I saw it on 750's and
780's.  Unix could not make use of it for some reason.  But RSTS and
VMS sure did.

So, what else is new and advanced?  :-)

Simon