Actually I would say its that the Operating system has been in 'development'/available for more then 50 years.
more time to get it right. Then is the aspect that in the earlier years there was less of a push for getting out the door, because there was not the same level of competition. The aspect of the Character set (codepage) would have little effect. If there was money to be had, Hackers would try to get at it. On 2013-06-21 10:00 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote: So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Robert Galambos CIPP/C, CIPP/IT, IBM DB2 DBA for z/OS Email: rgalam...@gmail.com Blog: http://robertdataprivacytesting.blogspot.ca/ LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/robertgalambos/ Objective: Senior Pre-Sales Technical Professional Consultant delivers Client Satisfaction with Technical Expertise & Dynamic Energy Skills: Implemented Data Privacy strategies and processes, product positioning to achieve territory sales and increase market share within managed care markets. Sr. Pre-Sales Consultant with more than $2 MM sales yearly. Serviced, retained, and expanded major accounts Dedicated, Self-Starter, Dependable, 'Go to' person On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Roland Kinsman <rjkins...@hotmail.com>wrote: > From: Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:34:59 -0500 > Posted link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#External_links > > Thanks, Mike. I did see the EBCDIC article, but I did not notice the link > near the bottom. But I think this merits a separate article, and I might > just post it. After all, I can copy/paste with the best of them! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
