On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote:
...as I recall, there were PDPs, IBMs, Cybers (IBM clones),
CDC, VAXen, and not much else available in '88
Minor correction: Cybers (made by CDC) were nothing like IBMs.
-- Dave
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Horsfall quotes:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote:
...as I recall, there were PDPs, IBMs, Cybers (IBM clones),
CDC, VAXen, and not much else available in '88
What!?! You must be kidding - there were *tons* more hardware vendors
back then, at least in
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruce Ediger wrote:
What!?! You must be kidding - there were *tons* more hardware vendors
back then, at least in terms of variety, because everyone had their own
CPU architecture, or at least a wildly variant operating system.
From the 1988 period, you're missing out:
[I hold fingerd and rshd innocent on the grounds that they worked as
intended, but were abused.]
...or not[1]. The point remains, however.
[1] http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/iworm.html
-Andrew-
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Morris worm of 1988 did multiple vulnerabilities for multiple platforms.
But the monoculture of sendmail was the aggravating factor which made its
impact so significant - a large piece of complex software riddled with
design flaws, bugs and beyond the ability of any
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:48:31 EDT, Andrew J Caines [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I wonder how long before the current monoculture threat to the net is
addressed as effectively.
I fear the answer there is maybe we'll do it right when we're rebuilding it
from the smoking ruins...
pgp0.pgp
Seriously-nudging-up-to-off-topic-but...
You make a good (albeit incomplete) point. You left out that BITD ('88)
security was NOT a line item, since the 'net was, effectively, a finite
and restricted community. Not every damned idiot has a dial-up, and
almost no one had their own private
