Re: is Vax addressing sane today

In article <20240930111505.000018a3@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
(Michael S) wrote:

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:28:42 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Also the fact that those _64-bit_ APIs are not entirely _64-bit_

 
They are entirely 64-bit. Every user-supplied buffer can be
anywhere in user's address space. Possibly you are confusing
Windows with VMS.

Windows NT's VMS heritage does not extend to that particular VMS
misfeature. The lack of 64-bit versions of some APIs on VMS is simply due
to shortcuts taken by DEC to get 64-bit VMS out faster, which have never
been caught up. The rather elaborate VMS API definitions, in terms of
memory block sizes rather than calls in a programming language, made it
harder to create 64-bit APIs.

John