[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

En/na VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG ha escrit:
> In article <cp85ah.k4n.ln at gw1>, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <send.me at no.spam> writes:
> 
>>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... :(
> 
> 
> VAX PTE's maintain read and write access for the various modes only.  There
> is no EXECUTE bit.  Not on the Alpha either.  Only on ia64 is there such a
> concept.

OK I stand corrected...