Open_Source

[David Kelly]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> >A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly
> >reliable and secure.
> 
> At least is said too, i never used or even seen VMS.

When Digital Equipment Corporation collapsed, the architect(s) of VMS
went to Microsoft and were given NT to mold in their own likeness. This
is where rings of security levels originated in modern Windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler

NT 3.5 and possibly 4.0 supported VMS-like versioned files as part of
the filesystem.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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