In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/11/2008
   at 10:37 AM, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Makes perfect sense to me. Under OS/360, we didn't have the protection 
>that CCW translation gives us today and it was incredibly easy to 
>destroy part of the OS

Not by pointing a CCW at it; storage protection was good enough for that.
The holes were things like failure to ensure that key 0 code came from
authorized libraries..
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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