[Info-vax] VMS x86 performance ?

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sat Oct 31 11:44:53 EDT 2020


Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So which one is the most secure?
>
>My money is on RSTS or Primos.

It's definitely not Pr1mos.  When I was in grad school, the college I was at
was running Pr1mos 19, and I knew at least ten different ways to get system
access from a user account.  Not all of them were timing issues either!

Pr1mos had so many different layers of compatibility stuff, so many different
operating modes, that there were all kinds of little places for security holes
to hide.  Complexity is the enemy of security.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."



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