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

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm with Bob.  (Does that make him my uncle?)

Back in the day, when VAX/VMS was a more significant part of the market,
it had a good reputation.  It was seen as superior with respect to it's 
peers of the day.  Why was that?

Granted, the market and environment today is much different.  But 
quality is quality, and while VMS needs some serious work, it has that 
history of quality, and if the work gets done, then why not consider it 
perhaps a better solution, from the perspective of security?