[Info-vax] Current expected range for x86-64 first boot date ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-06 03:00:15 +0000, Mike Moroney said:

> At least I am away from memory management for now. Fugly. How many 
> levels of page tables? Variable levels? Add to it VMS-specific stuff 
> and it is that much worse. And the instruction set/registers... it's 
> obvious this evolved, it wasn't designed...

The results of unqualified and unmitigated upward compatibility and 
feature accretion and the errata and jargon can be just such a joy to 
work with, eh?

Ponder the designs and implementations and the jargon from the 
perspective of a new OpenVMS developer or new OpenVMS administrator, 
too.



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