[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pka3f3$fi1$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Even ioctl() is a C-like function in a library, that in turn does the 
> actual system call, which is a piece of assembler code.

   When I studied BSD UNIX, it was a user mode routine in there kernel,
   like it is in VMS, and IIRC, RSX.  It contained the architecture specific
   technique for getting into the kernel mode routine.