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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <8e039374-65ce-4640-bf4b-e515dfcd897e at googlegroups.com>,
	John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
> 

OK, thank you.  I didn't think of that.  I was just looking at people
requesting things like loadable/unloadable device drivers and ended
out equating that to everything being loaded at boot time.

bill

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