[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[John Reagan]

On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 10:51:28 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 
> This may come off as a really stupid question, but isn't VMS a monolithic
> kernel?  In which case VM and everything else is available as soon as the
> secondary (or tertiary) boot loader loads the kernel into memory and jumps
> there.  Right?
> 

Has not been a monolith since VMS V3 or so.  Look at all the files in SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES: to see the pieces.