[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Dave Froble]

On 8/3/2020 11:25 AM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 12:23:48 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2020-08-02, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> New additions targeted for the 26-August V9.0-D release are:
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>      DECnet IV
>>
>> Seriously ? That's a priority target ? How many of you are still using
>> this in production for VSI to justify porting it at this time ?
>>
>> The only place that stack should be is in the computer history museum.
>>
>> I hope VSI are giving the stack itself a good audit while porting it
>> because if the TCP/IP stack suffers from security issues, then you
>> can safely assume the DECnet Phase IV stack does as well (just like
>> any other networking stack does).
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>> --
>> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
>> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
>
> I tried my best to ditch DECnet on x86 but there are just too many customers using it (we asked, it was very disappointing).
>

DECnet can be useful.  If there is no problem keeping it, then why would 
anyone want to "ditch" it?  As long as users are aware of it's issues, 
if they then choose to use it, why not.

There are too many people who want to run other's lives.  Not a good thing.

I use Google Chrome for some things.  When I attempt to visit a web site 
that doesn't have security that makes Chrome happy, it won't let me 
access the site.  Now, what if there is some information there that I 
really need?

Really, really, need ....

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