[Info-vax] Modular VMS, was: Re: Prism/Pillar, was: Re: inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-05-29 18:11:25 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> What do you tell them when they ask why they should look at VMS instead 
> of other operating systems they are more familiar with and which have 
> features they are familiar with ?

FWIW...  Apple has announced user-mode device drivers...
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hiddriverkit
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usbdriverkit

And a user-space analog to what OpenVMS calls a loadable system service 
/ privileged shareable image...
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/systemextensions?language=objc

Looks rather different from the old connect-to-interrupt support too, 
for those that still remember that.


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