> 
> Sadly, the OSF/1 palcode throws away lots of nice alpha interrupt handling
> hardware. All the cpu's provide nice hardware support for 15 different
> software interrupt requests, but the osf/1 palcode throws every last one
> away.
> 
I assume that the palcode in VMS mode should support that; because
VMS needs it :-) What is the difference in how the palcode works under
VMS and OSF/1?

-- Ragge