[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

En/na VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG ha escrit:
> 
> 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?  

Perhaps in my imagination? I don't read about VAX arch and VMS internals 
sinde the early nineties, but I _think_ the entries in the page table 
have a protection mask allows marking a page as readable, but 
non-executable. I am wrong on that? Too many years, too much coffee and 
too many arch changes in my life... :(