[Info-vax] Security and VMS, was: Re: The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
> via Info-vax
> Sent: July 24, 2018 7:07 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Security and VMS, was: Re: The (now lost) future of
> Alpha.
> 
> On 7/24/2018 6:19 PM, already5chosen at yahoo.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 1:11:34 AM UTC+3, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> >> On 7/24/2018 5:46 PM, already5chosen at yahoo.com wrote:
> >>> On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 2:30:04 AM UTC+3, Kerry Main wrote:
> >>>> Feedback I heard from that DECwest individual was that while some
> >>>> of the Windows NT kernel was cleaned up, and likely more since
> >>>> then, for MS to do a massive re-write of all the internal macro
> >>>> code would have resulted in to many past incompatibilities and
> >>>> taken to long to implement. Also, they were apparently worried about
> potential performance issues.
> >>
> >>> WTF is "macro code" ?
> >>
> >> Most likely macro assembler.
> >>
> >> In the MS world known as MASM,
> >
> > So why Kerry called it by that strange name?
> 
> I don't think Kerry has a software developer perspective on things.
> 
> > And how he got the strange idea that it was used widely in NT kernel?
> 
> Good question.
> 
> Arne
> 

Just catching up ... See my reply later in thread with todays date..


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com