[Info-vax] VMS process communication

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Fri Mar 10 16:01:35 EST 2023


On 10/31/2022 9:06 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/31/2022 9:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Have you considered adding articles about 64-bit memory access 
>> programming
>> on VMS and its limits ? Or is everyone already (painfully :-)) aware of
>> the issues involved here ?
> 
> I have not considered that.
> 
> Long opinionated writing about what DEC decided 30 years ago,
> why, consequences of that and, discussions about whether DEC
> made the right decision and discussions about what VSI should do
> now are out of scope for the series.
> 
> And from the more practical perspective I don't think there
> is enough to write about. One page with background,
> one page with all the stuff one can do in C and one
> page about the fun of Java calling C via JNI. That
> must be about it.

I decided to do it anyway.

And it turned out to be more than 3 pages to write.

Pre-release for comments:

https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vms64.html

Arne






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