[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-07-30 23:24:25 +0000, John Reagan said:

> How can you tell where you code lives or how much you can have?
> 
> The biggest limited of OpenVMS (which traces its way back to Macro) is 
> that the stack is in 32-bit space.  I don't think there is ANY way to 
> tell the image activator to allocate it anywhere else.  And if you do 
> can, you won't get very far.

AFAIK, the code all has to live in P0.

As for how much?  Same as on RSX-11M; by something blowing out.

I find myself both very impressed with the current V7.0 memory 
management design, and horrified.


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