Quoting Kelsey Hartigan Go <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
<FLAMEBAIT>
Microsoft Windows security IS an OXYMORON. They may pay lip service
to security
with creeping security features (their implementation of ACL's is quite
technologically advanced, and .NET's security framework is really admirable)
but they still DON'T GET security. I guess the bad decisions
(graphics routines
in the kernel, HTTP server as in-kernel - WTF?) accumulated since 15
years ago
is still haunting them. In fairness, the original NT design was good
on paper
:D
</FLAMEBAIT>
Here's a piece of trivia many do not know. The original Windows NT
has the acronym WNT which had been originally designed by Dave
Cutler, the person responsible for the design VMS, the operating
system of VAX (Fomerly DEC, renamed Digital, bought by Compaq, which
terminated the VAX line but continued the Alpha line, which in turn
was bought by HP). VMS has one of the most powerful ACL system, was
designed with security in mind and eventually integrated an RDBMS
with the operating system (RDB). WNT is actually one character shift
from VMS (which took off from Space Odyssey -- like IBM to HAL).
That was until orders from BillG instructed Cutler to integrate the Win32API
from being a subsystem right into NT's kernel... even Cutler's team (with his
"I will not put that crap into NT" speech) weren't at all able to make upper
management retract their instruction to bolt in Win32 as a direct kernel
personality into the core of NT.
In paper, NT was great (many subsystems support such as POSIX, Win32,
OS/2, VMS,
etc, then the original portability goal, fine-grained ACL's,
microkernel design,
multi-threaded execution) but in reality, a horrible mess as its team had to
lean back and incorporate many very stupid decisions from management.
--
Paolo Alexis Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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