Markus Weber wrote:-
Didn't CDC's NOS use the term
"deadstart"?
Yes, and some of their machines has 'deadstart panels'. A set of 12 x 12
switches that were the bootstrap for peripherial processor zero (12 bit
data/instruction). I think the CDC6600 had 12X12, but some of the latter
machines (Cybers) had up to 20x12