[Info-vax] WASD now is 25 years.

[IanD]

Congratulations Mark Daniel

We were a customer way back when EDS was still alive and we deployed WASD on the Optus Telco account

I remember giving you questions about WASD when you visited us. To my shame, I wasn't very objective but you answered truthfully and without trying to hide anything. It was obvious from my line of questioning I wanted Apache

I remember going away and thinking, sh*t, I wanted Apache but 'this WASD thing' is dam good. I changed my mind and added my vote to the recommendation for WASD

I still remember a little summary statement I made as to why we picked WASD, "...because it simply kicks arse" :-). Yes, that was me

I believe you used that statement in some presentations afterwards? lol

One of the things I remember reading was about how long ago, someone pointed out a vulnerability in WASD. I read about how you didn't try and sweep it under the carpet but instead went through everything, probing, looking, overturning all sorts to see what else you may have missed. Even in your documentation you make reference to the need to never let down your guard about security and that even WASD was not immune to security flaws and you made reference to someone finding a security issue with WASD

It was this sort of forthrightness that also had me throw my hat into the WASD camp when we evaluated the product

Well done Mark, I am surprised though that it's 25 years old, where has all that time gone?

WASD on x86-64 VMS next?