[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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