[Info-vax] VMS device drivers

[David Jones]

On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 1:40:17 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> For one thing, unlike Linux, there is absolutely _no_ kernel module 
> support in VMS. On VMS, when you need to reload your device driver 
> while trying to get things to work, you need to reboot your system 
> _every_ _single_ _time_ you want to load an updated device driver. :-( :-( 

The early versions of VAX/VMS let you reload drivers, it was quite convenient.

I never tried to write a device driver from scratch, but I have tweaked a couple.