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• DeathArrow
  I wonder if we can't do something much better than the old UNIX paradigm today.25 years ago there was an avalanche of new operating systems and if somebody asked me at that time, I was sure we will have much better operating systems in the future using fresh ideas.I am not saying UNIX is bad, just that I would like to see some advancements in the OS area, beside improving UNIX kernels and APIs.
• somat
  Now I am wondering how VMS handled this. Do VMS programs just get no chance to recover from arithmetic faults? That is, do whatever the VMS equivalent is to masking sigfpe in unix.Was there ever a source drop for VMS on vax? Probably hard to impossable to figure out if not
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  globalnode
  interesting read, makes me think kernel programming isnt that much harder than app programming, just more manuals to read and hardware to understand.edit: not to dismiss kernel programmers, you people are awesome!