[Info-vax] Any PDP-11 RSX-11 fans looking to be horribly underpaid

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/14/2018 05:17 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-01-12, terry-groups at glaver.org <terry-groups at glaver.org> wrote:
>>
>> I guess this proves the people who said "no company would be insane enough to
>> run those operating systems in production" wrong, over in the security
>> vulnerability thread.
> 
> While it's not exactly a great situation to be in, it is manageable
> in some environments to some extent provided you take the proper
> precautions and provided you realise that your old systems are
> hopelessly insecure.
> 
> My real problem is with those people who think they can treat their
> old VMS systems as if they were modern secured systems because in
> their mindset "those security issues that other operating systems
> have don't affect VMS so I don't have to worry about them". :-(
> 
> Those are the people who need to be woken up before the third party
> security researchers do it for them.
> 
> Simon.
> 

I have never heard of any successful break-ins of an RSX system
thru the Internet and, yes, they do have TCP/IP.

bill