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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-11, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <r4apju$1e3$6 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> 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.
>
> I think that most people could live with a vulnerability which didn't 
> have an effect until after 33 years.  :-|
>

How do you know it didn't have an effect on people just because the
vendor didn't know about it ?

BTW, to add to the possible security improvements, a kernel based on
something like seL4 might be an interesting, if more radical, idea:

https://sel4.systems/

Simon.

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