[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/3/21 9:39 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 6/3/2021 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-06-02, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> because then OpenVMS becomes available to the common user (desktop) apps
>>> with the ad pitch being "eliminate ransomware, malware and security 
>>> tools for good"
>>
>> Don't go there Bob. Seriously.
> 
> Why not?  It might work for some people.
> 
>> VMS is missing the required desktop applications.
> 
> "Required" might not be easy to specify.  Lots of different 
> "requirements" out there.
> 
>> VMS is missing security protections common in other operating systems.
> 
> You mean all those "secure" systems that are constantly being hacked, 
> invaded with ransomware and such.  Are those the "common security 
> protections" you're talking about?
> 
> Perhaps I'd rather be not as "secure" ...

Either you don;lt understand any of this or you just haven't been paying
attention.  The places being hit are, in most of the stated cases, not
using any of the accepted security practices.

Why are critical systems even on the Internet?  Why do these people not
have backups to fall back on? (I worked in the CS Dept. of a University.
Not what most people would consider in any way critical.

My backup scheme would  have allowed me to resume operations with no
more than a  4 hour loss of data.  I did that with no additional budet
and running strictly COTS.)

bill