2 Feb
1999
2 Feb
'99
5:47 a.m.
Administrator accounts were cool as we could change
our password to what WE wanted, not some random string (yeh, yeh, security
and all that).
One interesting option the DPS-6 machines had was a security module. When
added, the thing became a SCOMP (Secure Communications Processor) and with
it, A-1 security (something Unix can not even begin to think about
claiming. VMS, too.).
Unfortunatly the odds are that all this hardware has
been melted
down for razor blades by now.
Remember that these are the same people that still find World War 1
equipment (and even stuff from the Civil War) in dusty crates in the back
of some depots from time to time.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net