[Info-vax] Future comparison of optimized VSI x86 compilers vs Linux compilers

[David Jones]

On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 4:53:45 PM UTC-4, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:

> I'd wish you'd stop spreading this nonsense. Pardon my French. the Exec/Kernel mode line was never intended as a security/privilege related line, its a mechanism that helps stability by protecting kernel mode data/code from bugs in exec mode, it's not meant to protect against malicous code executing in exec mode. 

Back when a reboot was 20+ minutes, I found losing you process from and exec mode exception versus a kernel mode crash a big win.