John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: > It's not so much that it is insecure, but that it is new. Linux is only > 10-15 years old. You have to realize that some mainframe system have > been running applications that were designed and written over 30 years > ago. They may have thousands of programs written in mainframe > assembler, PL/I, Cobol, and other languages and you can't just convert > that over night have have it run the same. You have to realize that > today IBM mainframe OS's have their roots from OS's that are 40 years old.
minor reference: //www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.cfm nearly 40 years old ... and its the new, new thing in chip technology this season. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
