On 6/21/2013 10:00 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote:
So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers.
As Shmuel noted, early S/360 operating systems had very little protection. The earliest lacked storage protection. OS/360 had a PASSWORD mechanism; unfortunately access to a password protected data set required entering the password on an operator's console in clear text, thus making it less than secure.
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