[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

[superseth369 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 11:54:42 PM UTC-5, Jon Pinkley wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 3:35:19 PM UTC-5, mcecu... at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 3:24:35 PM UTC-5, Steve Ives wrote: 
> > > By the way, just a bit of fun. In modern "DIBOL", written in Visual Studio (optional), bottles of beer can now be done like this: 
> > > 
> > > proc 
> > > data i, int 
> > > for i from 99 thru 1 by -1 
> > > Console.WriteLine("{0} Bottle{2} of Beer on the wall,{1}{0} Bottle{2} of Beer,{1}Take one down, pass it around,{1}{0} Bottle{2} of Beer on the wall.'{1}",i,%char(13)+%char(10),i>1?"s":"") 
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > Steve here is the top 50 most vulnerable OSs so far to make a point. 
> > 
> > Top 50 Products By Total Number Of "Distinct" Vulnerabilities 
> > Go to year: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 All Time Leaders 
> > Product Name Vendor Name Product Type Number of Vulnerabilities 
> > 1 Debian Linux Debian OS 3067 
> > 2 Android Google OS 2563 
> > 3 Linux Kernel Linux OS 2357 
> > 4 Mac Os X Apple OS 2212 
> > 5 Ubuntu Linux Canonical OS 2007 
> > 6 Firefox Mozilla Application 1873 
> > 7 Chrome Google Application 1858 
> > 8 Iphone Os Apple OS 1655 
> > 9 Windows Server 2008 Microsoft OS 1421 
> > 10 Windows 7 Microsoft OS 1283 
> > 11 Acrobat Reader Dc Adobe Application 1182 
> > 12 Acrobat Dc Adobe Application 1182 
> > 13 Windows 10 Microsoft OS 1111 
> > 14 Flash Player Adobe Application 1078 
> > 15 Windows Server 2012 Microsoft OS 1050 
> > 16 Enterprise Linux Desktop Redhat OS 1039 
> > 17 Internet Explorer Microsoft Application 1030 
> > 18 Safari Apple Application 1029 
> > 19 Enterprise Linux Server Redhat OS 979 
> > 20 Windows 8.1 Microsoft OS 978 
> > 21 Acrobat Adobe Application 949 
> > 22 Enterprise Linux Workstation Redhat OS 941 
> > 23 Thunderbird Mozilla Application 921 
> > 24 Opensuse Opensuse OS 918 
> > 25 Windows Server 2016 Microsoft OS 889 
> > 26 Windows Rt 8.1 Microsoft OS 848 
> > 27 Windows Vista Microsoft OS 831 
> > 28 Windows Xp Microsoft OS 741 
> > 29 Mysql Oracle Application 716 
> > 30 Seamonkey Mozilla Application 698 
> > 31 Fedora Fedoraproject OS 697 
> > 32 Acrobat Reader Adobe Application 681 
> > 33 Firefox Esr Mozilla Application 672 
> > 34 Enterprise Linux Redhat OS 662 
> > 35 Mac Os X Server Apple OS 640 
> > 36 IE Microsoft Application 631 
> > 37 JRE Oracle Application 617 
> > 38 Edge Microsoft Application 615 
> > 39 JDK Oracle Application 607 
> > 40 PHP PHP Application 604 
> > 41 Itunes Apple Application 601 
> > 42 Leap Opensuse OS 595 
> > 43 Wireshark Wireshark Application 576 
> > 44 Sunos SUN OS 569 
> > 45 Office Microsoft Application 546 
> > 46 Imagemagick Imagemagick Application 545 
> > 47 IOS Cisco OS 532 
> > 48 Windows 2000 Microsoft OS 514 
> > 49 Watchos Apple OS 473 
> > 50 Solaris SUN OS 465
> I am not sure what point you are trying to make.  Most of those "products" are not Operating Systems.  
> 
> And the lack of reported vulnerabilities has very little to do with real vulnerabilities.
> 
> For example, I don't see CP/M or MS-DOS or even Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT on the list.  Does that imply they have no vulnerabilities?
> 
> I don't see any SCADA devices on the list either.

vulnerability history is a good way to gauge future occurences and the stability of the overall OS. I can cut out the non OS stuff if you can't and you will get a good idea of the insecure OSs.