[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-10, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <r48odl$1pm$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>Supervisor mode, as implemented within VMS, is an hideous abomination
>>and most normal applications simply don't need it as it is currently
>>implemented.
>
> You've got a psychotic and unwarranted hard-on for supervisor mode.
>

Supervisor mode, as implemented in VMS, is responsible for giving VMS
the dubious honour of having what is probably the longest undiscovered
vulnerability in the history of operating systems.

(Unless anyone else knows of another operating system in active use
that has a vulnerability which lasted for at least 33 years until it
was finally discovered ?)

Simon.

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