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[Robert Armstrong]

>An AST is an "asynchronous system trap", otherwise known as an interrupt
routine.

 

  Rob's absolutely right about what the acronym means, but I always found
the idea of an "asynchronous trap" to be an oxymoron.  When I was in school,
"traps" were synchronous with instruction execution, and "interrupts" were
asynchronous.   It should be a "SST', not an "AST".  It was always one of my
pet peeves about VMS J

 

Bob

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