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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ml4joc$cd7$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 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.

   From that point of view, yes.  But who's CS class were we in when we
   accepted that defintion of "monolithic".

   Never give Bill a break.