[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

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In article <540cd970$0$49949$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>On 14-09-07 10:51, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Might?  No.  I can say with certainty that I was referring to 
>> inner-mode programming when I was using the phrase "system 
>> programming".  No "might" needed there.
>
>From the start, I could see the differentiation between "programming
>application that use system services" and "programming at kernel level".
>
>Someone new to VMS wouldn't start with programs that are at system
>level, so it was obvious to me that the reference was to the use of
>system services (and I would include the LIB$ in there even though I am
>aware there are big differences at how they run, to the average
>user-mode programmer, they are just other callable routines).
>
>(Obviously, to someone like Mr VAXman who eats, lives and sleeps in
>kernel mode and rarely emerges up to user level, these definitiosn of
>"system programming" would be quite different. But there are not many Mr
>VAXman's in this universe/reality :-)

I spent several, recent past, years in executive mode working on the Attunity
RMS CDC product and, in my spare time, I've moved farther from kernel central
to supervisor mode to create the DCL debugger.  Of course, if you're situated
in the outlying region (ie. in user mode), supervisor and executive modes can
still be considered inner modes. ;)

...and now, back to Sweet Baby Guinness: 1/2 Sweet Baby Jesus + 1/2 Guinness.
Delicious!  Imagine it with a dollop of pure vanilla bean ice cream in there
too!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPNU_E5iapo
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