[Info-vax] (Hypothetical only) Major new security issue for VAX/Alpha. What do you do ?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 9/24/16 3:37 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

> At the moment, if a security researcher tells HP that a VMS issue
> also applies to VAX/VMS, is the security researcher simply told
> that VAX/VMS is no longer supported (in regards to new patches
> being generated), or would the issue be evaluated to see what
> impact it has on VAX systems ?

Why would they? Do you think Apple evaluates current security issues to
see if they apply to ancient versions of OS X that run on PowerPC Macs?
Or Microsoft evaluates Windows bugs for Windows NT on Alpha?