[Info-vax] VMS x86 perf. + RSTS/E

[allen rueter]

We had vms driving front end terminals to access in-house RSTS/E DB
Allen Rueter

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 13:50 Dave Froble via Info-vax <
info-vax at info-vax.com> wrote:

> On 10/31/2020 1:20 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > On 10/31/20 11:44 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Try them on Rev 24. Rev 19 was old even before I faded from the
> > Primos world (well, kinda faded, I still have it running on
> > emulators here and now!)
> > Still, I expect Primos has had about as much hacking attacks
> > pointed at it as VMS.
> >
> > Still leaves RSTS, my favorite OS.  :-)
> >
> > bill
> >
> >
>
> I confess to curiosity.  What is there about RSTS that you like so much?
>
> RSTS was my first serious OS, and I liked it.  But there were so many
> restrictions.  16 bit being the most significant.  There was the dreaded
> TKB.  (Yes, TKB taught one to be precise and know a bit about what one
> was doing.)
>
> About 2 months after I started on VMS, RSTS was forgotten ....
>
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