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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <cnd3dtF6mdjU4 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> Sorry Dave, I don't buy it.  I came into contact with VMS at about
> the same time I came into contact with Unix.  The only reason the
> VMS system was there (and there was only one even while Unix boxes
> were sprouting up all over, even in administrative locations) was
> for one particular application that was not available on anything
> else there.  A Validated ADA Compiler.  That was VAX 11/750 days.

   So you're a newbie, and you expect us to listen to your revistionist
   history on what happened before you showed up?