20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
5:37 a.m.
<tricky to exploit anyway -- the cracker needed to have read the
<source code).
I'd say VMS is the best I've worked with as the base security is pretty
tight. It also has the less than common attribute.
As a system it falls into my criteria:
Stable mature systems I know how to use.
Allison
20 Mar
20 Mar
6:02 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
<tricky to exploit anyway -- the cracker needed to
have read the
<source code).
I'd say VMS is the best I've worked with as the base security is pretty
tight. It also has the less than common attribute.
As a system it falls into my criteria:
Stable mature systems I know how to use.
As after six years is Linux for me. (The MICROS~1 drones can claim
that Linux is an upstart, but it's really been in public use longer
than NT, much longer than 95/98, with serious peer review of the
source code -- I wonder how long NT sources could be examined with
a straight face?).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
7:08 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:
As after six years is Linux for me. (The MICROS~1
drones can claim
that Linux is an upstart, but it's really been in public use longer
than NT, much longer than 95/98, with serious peer review of the
source code -- I wonder how long NT sources could be examined with
a straight face?).
You remember that thread about VMS engineers migrating to NT? Well, guess
where I got it? An article alleging that NT is almost 30 years old simply
because it had VMS engineers on its team and VMS is almost 30 years old.
It was thusly alleging that UNIX and NT are of comparable maturity since
UNIX is also 30 years old. Yes, I know it's BS but that's what some people
actually think.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
10:20 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
You remember that thread about VMS engineers migrating
to NT? Well, guess
where I got it? An article alleging that NT is almost 30 years old simply
because it had VMS engineers on its team and VMS is almost 30 years old.
It was thusly alleging that UNIX and NT are of comparable maturity since
UNIX is also 30 years old. Yes, I know it's BS but that's what some people
actually think.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
People like that actually DESERVE Windows....
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
5:43 p.m.
At 16:08 20/03/99 -0500, Max Eskin wrote:
You remember that thread about VMS engineers migrating
to NT? Well, guess
where I got it? An article alleging that NT is almost 30 years old simply
because it had VMS engineers on its team and VMS is almost 30 years old.
I know VMS is old, but it's not that old! Given that VAX hardware shipped
to customers in 1978, I doubt that VMS is much more than 25 years old....
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