[Info-vax] How much of VMS is still in MACRO-32?

[John Dallman]

In article <s8ubjp$4ei$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> Why separate?
> 
> It is common in *nix world to distinguish between kernel and
> userland.
> 
> But not sure that it makes much sense on VMS:
> * both were developed by DEC
> * both were developed in the same languages
> * they have always been consider a single entity

The reason for distinguishing, now that I've thought about it a bit more,
is that the kernel, some device drivers, the loader and so on need to be
able to deal with 64-bit addresses, memory above the 4GB line, and so on.
That isn't something that MACRO-32 does natively. In contrast, some of
the utility programs can probably remain 32-bit forever, so there's less
need to revise them. 

John