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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-08, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

True, but it's still monolithic in the sense that everything shares
the same kernel address space with no isolation between the various
kernel level components.

Simon.

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