[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

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In article <52fafbba$0$8113$c3e8da3$3304c218 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>On 14-02-11 18:54, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> I'm not so certain I'd want to be jumping into kernel
>> mode with BASIC.
>
>But isn't kernel mode the default for you, and you only have to worry
>about things breaking on those rare occasions when you jump to user mode
>? :-)

Pretty much so. :)

I've been at SUPERVISOR mode in a lot of my time working on a DCL debugger
I've mentioned here a few times.  I'd been called away from that in recent
weeks to work on RMS CDC (EXEC mode), coded an Excel spreadsheet generator
(USER mode) for a client that writes their app in COBOL (on OpenVMS), made
new Postscript forms and logos artwork (not really OpeNVMS but used there),
and setup and configured a *new* Itegrity Blade cluster even though nobody
has been buying Itegrity for OpenVMS as per HP's "suggestion".

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