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

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

Sure sounds like a perspective thing.  :-)

Not a micro-kernel.

Not "real" monolithic.  Not 100%.  As soon as you have some ACPs and 
such, it's not monolithic.  Maybe in large part.  But, is there such a 
thing as "partly pregnant"?

:-)

Why don't we just call it VMS and let it be?

Dave, who isn't totally sold on micro-kernels.