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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-06-08 17:21:13 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <ctlofeFrb3vU3 at mid.individual.net>, 
> bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> This may come off as a really stupid question, but isn't VMS a 
>> monolithic kernel?
> 
>    No.

Yes; OpenVMS is a monolithic kernel.
There's one honking big kernel address space that's shared, and where 
most of the operating system kernel — loaded in from various files — 
operates.
There aren't really enough ACPs around and in use to make the case for 
OpenVMS being a hybrid kernel.



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