> We SHOULDN’T have to take ANY performance penalty to have a system that
didn’t crash! I’ve had Alpha-based machines that dual-booted NT and VMS.
VMS, despite its reputation as a CPU and memory hog, ran circles around NT
in terms of responsiveness and it NEVER crashed on the exact same hardware!
Funny, but VMS used 4 protection rings (on VAX, dunno on Alphas).
Max