Contrast with mainframe software. Windows's descent into an open-range free-for-all began when it morphed from its single-user origin into a multiuser host platform. As with UNIX and other hands-off-my-gear operating systems, there was in the beginning no concept of managing multiple concurrent users even in a single physical box, let alone an environment complete with a swinging door into the wide wide world of skulking bogeymen.
MVS was designed from the ground up to handle multiple disparate and even antagonistic users who were compelled by mainframe economics to share resources with each other. Security and separation of authority were foundational building blocks of the architecture, not latter day paste-ons needed to turn a totally personal OS into a business class server. For MVS, the internet was just another way to access the system. Controls woven into the basic framework of the OS were enhanced--not invented--to handle the increased complexity. So Windows is useful to us as a tool for getting our work done. UNIX is what it is--or whatever bean-counter management fantasizes it to be. Neither is a mainframe class OS. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Windows 10 Pro automatic update On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:47:47 -0500, Wendell Lovewell wrote: > >(I had to revert to Firefox release 51 and switched to "Never check for >updates" because they dropped NPAPI support and a some of the web sites >I need stopped working. I still find myself being forced to use Edge >or Chrome now and then.) > It's the opioids of the Internet. Things users find attractive, oblivious to their dangers. This has been attributed, in part, to Windows' expansion from an environment of secure office LANs where users were mutually trustworthy and valued the facility of opening arbitrary attachments with a single click, or with no click, to the perilous wilderness of the Internet. And suppliers consider the potential user base of those prudent enough to avoid the risks expendable; outweighed by the potential of those who prefer to live dangerously. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
