[Info-vax] A portable VMS, was: Re: OS Ancestry

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue May 18 14:58:52 EDT 2021


On 5/18/2021 2:43 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Supervisor mode is where DCL lives. (It cannot be in user mode because,
> due to the design of VMS, DCL has access to the privileges of the
> programs it runs).

The main reason for DCL being in S mode must be that the U stack
goes away at program termination so it has to be in the S stack.

Arne





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