On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 19:14, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:00:54PM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > Be careful with those sorts of statements around the Uni'. They'll have > > everyone back on VMS before you know it :) > > Heh, we still *have* VMS. Yes, nicely locked up where it runs the University Email, DNS, and Student Database and *does*not* interact with students. Much. I am fearful of the day that VMS is brought onto the desktop.
Some may argue that VMS made it onto the desktop; Windows NT was written by one of the original VMS designers and has a very similar privileges system. The privileges system is a mixed blessing: it allows for a far more secure setup than is possible with Posix, but it is difficult to get right, causing more insecurity than security for Windows, IMHO. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
