-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/08 08:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:15:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/10/08 17:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> [snip] >>>>> And a workstation running OpenVMS was considered so unhackable at >>>>> DEFCON9 that it wasn't allowed back the next year. >>>> and VMS, unlike unix, since the beginning was planned with solid >>>> security in mind. In the times where classification into A,B,C,D >>>> security made sense, there were VMS B-certified machines (the maximum >>>> level, except for the lack of a formal mathemetical proof of that level >>>> of security). And Digital never had to hide the code from the eyes of >>>> the world, so that everybody could know the quality of the code (any >>>> reference to proprietary software widely used today, and which is not of >>>> the same level of quality as VMS, is purely wanted). >>> I'll have to look at OpenVMS. Is it still maintained? >> Sure. HP still makes lots of money off of it. >> >>> Will it run on >>> my old 486? >> Well, no. But you might find a VAXstation of similar power on Ebay. > > Thanks, > > I had a look at the wikipedia article for OpenVMS. It seems that the > Open is a misnomer.
It uses open, published, standard protocols and APIs. Thus, by a very reasonable definition, it is "open". And the source code is available, too, but I'm not sure if you have to be a VMS licensee. > Is anybody working on an OpenOpenVMS? http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/FreeVMS/indexGB.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJx0tS9HxQb37XmcRAtl+AKDSFNWmMWLR8uqH5B1YA8ub4qT5jQCgxRVf JlOO7wNWCwPRw/fui7j+ZqM= =hYd5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]