DEC VMS equivalent of this is 'Access Violation', which as such is a Fault, and manifests itself in logs as the dreadful ACCVIO, though one is always hopeful it

DEC VMS equivalent of this is 'Access Violation', which as such is a Fault, and manifests itself in logs as the dreadful ACCVIO, though one is always hopeful it's debuggabble, unlike 'AST fault' (where AST stands for Async System Trap, which is not a Fault, but the fault happened while trying to deliver the AST...), meant a lot of head scratching and likely call to support. The worst by far is a 'Machine Check', next thing one hopes to see is the carrots >>> prompt on reset. It's a very nuanced and structured terminology, but does make sense after reading all those hefty and well-written manuals. People like to use those volumes as monitor risers these days, but those are often true standards of quality technical writing. I once was amazed by the clarity, so the VMS doc volume migrated to the shelf in exchange for some old conference proceedings volume of the same heft.