[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

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In article <5ju4ah.m8l.ln at gw1>, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <send.me at no.spam> writes:
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>Of course, that could'nt happen in a VAX. All you would get is a ACCVIO, 
>since VAX has a exec bit for each page, and the stack should not be exec 
>utable. But on the x86 they have that kind of protection only recently.

Envision Rod Sterling walking out from the background darkness into the 
shadowy light, camera focused on him from his lapel and tie, and with a
cigarette lit and its smoke encircling his head...

    "Picture, if you will, a man who has just consumed too much wine 
     or too much LSD or who has simply fallen squarely upon his pate
     from an appreciable height, and is now totally delusional in the 
     usenet newsgroup of comp.Twilight.Zone..."

Where's this VAX exec bit?  

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