>>>Ever patch a running monitor?
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>>You mean HARDWARE? Hey, but that's hardware!
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>Actually some s/w operating systems call their run-time resource management program The Monitor. At least, that was true of some of the old DEC os's.

Oh, _that_ one. I remember some 11 years ago I was a sysmanager on a VAX, which ran 16 terminals on only 2M RAM, and when I just ran the monitor, the system half-choked. Patching system things on such a machine was a really big no-no back then.