[Info-vax] DCL and scripting

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-12, dgordonatvsi at gmail.com <dgordonatvsi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 2:49:59 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2018-12-12 18:41:18 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>> 
>> 
>> Drivers aren't the only spot that's been late to adopt tooling.  DCL 
>> had its own process threading implementation up until the Itanium port. 
>>  Use of KP Threads was then implemented.  
>> 
>
> And at least half of the ways I know to crash DCL are as a result of grafting that on to the existing DCL model.  (And now Simon is excited that there might be more ways to crash DCL...)
>

Unfortunately, Simon's excitement is constrained by the fact there
are no Itanium full system emulators and that real Itanium hardware
is too noisy (and probably bulky) to run at home.

Oh, well. :-)

Simon.

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