[Info-vax] One possible market for VMS: secure credit card

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mep7iv$63u$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> 
> Back then, the VMS volumes was extremely low compared to the IT-world
> of today. Even if everyone "got a VAX" back then.
> 
> Of course there was less of these problems 30 years ago.
> That is just as interesting as the fact that no one got
> their iPhone stolen 30 years ago. Weird, isn't it? Must
> have been becuse everyone had a VAX instead...

   I don't buy it.

   Back then Mac OS had a virus problem.  Everyone knew it.  And back
   then UNIX came with that reputation even before we saw it. Even though
   RISC wasn't out yet so a great many people were doing UNIX on VAXen.