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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/11/2020 9:38 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?)

I fail to see where this is such a bad thing.  Would you rather that 
vulnerabilities be discover and exploited more quickly?  At least there 
was 33 years of no exploits.  For that matter, has there been any 
exploits since your discovery?


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