[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/25/2021 6:34 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <sno4v1$efp$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> This has caused major problems going forward as people tried to
>> enhance VMS. One such example is the need for a combined 32-bit/64-bit
>> address space.
> 
> I don't find that all that much of an issue.

Having P0 and P2 is not an issue in itself.

But having 32 and 64 bit pointers can be an issue.

Maybe not that often, but it comes up occasionally.

Arne