-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/08 17:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > >>> And a workstation running OpenVMS was considered so unhackable at >>> DEFCON9 that it wasn't allowed back the next year. >> and VMS, unlike unix, since the beginning was planned with solid >> security in mind. In the times where classification into A,B,C,D >> security made sense, there were VMS B-certified machines (the maximum >> level, except for the lack of a formal mathemetical proof of that level >> of security). And Digital never had to hide the code from the eyes of >> the world, so that everybody could know the quality of the code (any >> reference to proprietary software widely used today, and which is not of >> the same level of quality as VMS, is purely wanted). > > I'll have to look at OpenVMS. Is it still maintained?
Sure. HP still makes lots of money off of it. > Will it run on > my old 486? Well, no. But you might find a VAXstation of similar power on Ebay. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJlatS9HxQb37XmcRAjJcAJsGTrK6rosj3RhOjR6MDISSHYyi2ACfUKS+ 0a/tnYFv4FolRP45guJBBzE= =fXy1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]