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

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:07:28 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> However, that doesn't change the fact that there is a clean isolation
> between the architecture specific and none architecture specific code
> and that Linux has a very nice module plugin architecture that allows
> all kinds of device drivers and filesystem components to be added and
> removed cleanly during normal system operation as required.
> 
> That same architecture also allows those same components to have cleanly
> defined boundaries between them.

Not unique to Linux, though. VMS itself, and BSD, come to mind.



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