[Info-vax] What to do with my VAX.....
Scott Dorsey
kludge at panix.com
Mon Oct 19 16:33:27 EDT 2020
Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>On 10/18/20 3:17 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> There is a growing need for an OS without any TCP/IP stack. *nix did
>> it wrong. There is absolutely no way of securing any system using
>> *nix based TCP/IP when it is connected to the Internet.
>
>I can't agree with that.
>
>Sure, putting a system on the Internet exposes it to more harm than
>sitting in a room by itself with no external connectivity. But then
>again, powering the system on exposes it to more harm than completely
>disconnecting it from power.
A person who believes as seasoned_geek does should run an operating system
in which the tcp/ip stack is not an integral part of the kernel. Like,
for example, 4.1BSD.. which... just so happens to run on the vax!
--scott
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