14 Nov
2005
14 Nov
'05
12:10 a.m.
On 11/13/2005 at 10:13 PM Frank McConnell wrote:
The other side of more careful is that if you were
running an
encrypted executable, when it got swapped out the swapper would
encrypt the code on the way to the swap disk and decrypt it on the way
back in. I guess they weren't too worried about winning the benchmark
game.
All of that seems to be pretty paranoid for the time. How many 68K Unix
systems were around that could even use the stuff? They must have thought
that they'd cover the world in their boxes.
I'm trying to recall--this was before AT&T got really predatory in their
Unix per-user-license pricing wasn't it? Basically, you paid your money
and they sent you a tape that would work on a PDP-11, right?
Cheers,
Chuck