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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <memn33$5c0$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> 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.

   And then you load Orcale to organize your data because your file
   system can't.

   I don't thinkUNIX has kept to your notion of small pieces since about
   1968.