In <8709522170369998.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 06/21/2013 at 09:34 AM, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> said:
>The character encoding that is used is irrelevant. The thing that >makes an operating system less penetrable is a design that is based >upon system integrity. From the earliest design of the System/360, >there have always been two kinds of instructions: privileged and >non-privileged. Storage protection further enhances the ability for >an operating system to protect itself. OS/360 was a swiss chees, but, as you noted, not because of the character set. 05F0 0A0C -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN