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

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     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.
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