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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ml4buu$asb$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2015-06-08, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 10:51:28 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> This may come off as a really stupid question, but isn't VMS a monolithic
>>> kernel?  In which case VM and everything else is available as soon as the
>>> secondary (or tertiary) boot loader loads the kernel into memory and jumps
>>> there.  Right?
>>> 
>>
>> Has not been a monolith since VMS V3 or so.  Look at all the files
>> in SYS$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.
> 

Thanks, now I'm totally confused.

bill

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