[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Scott Dorsey]

Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>Who really trusts software?   
><http://kryptoslogic.blogspot.com/2015/03/complexity-is-bugdoors-friend.html> 

The less software there is, the less there is to be untrustworthy.

The nice thing about the Unix philosophy is that everything is broken up into
tiny little pieces and all those pieces are interconnected... but each piece
is small enough to be more or less debuggable.  This also allows the wise admin
to remove stuff that isn't being used, because if it's not running it doesn't
matter if it's buggy.

Mind you, the people developing many modern Unix systems have thrown this
philosophy away completely, and they (and sadly we also) are suffering the
consequences of doing so.
--scott

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