[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

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In article <r48odl$1pm$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2020-03-10, roger.ivie at gmail.com <roger.ivie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> google "freevms"
>
>I'm familiar with FreeVMS. One major mistake it made was trying to
>emulate the existing VMS design in great detail at a far lower level
>than it should have done.
>
>For example, it decided to keep supervisor mode and tried to emulate
>the required additional hardware level by other means within its design.
>
>I on the other hand say that supervisor mode should be utterly discarded in
>any VMS like open source operating system and never heard from ever again.
>
>Supervisor mode, as implemented within VMS, is an hideous abomination
>and most normal applications simply don't need it as it is currently
>implemented.

You've got a psychotic and unwarranted hard-on for supervisor mode.

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