[Info-vax] the document describing the system service transfer vector

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/20/2022 2:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 9/20/22 12:09, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <jou0clF6c71U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> In Ken Olsen's day VMS only ran on proprietary DEC hardware which
>>> meant DEC would have had to make the desktop hardware as well as
>>> the software.  That's not true today.  Maybe it's time to re-look
>>> at the situation with an eye towards a much more secure desktop
>>> option.  especially when one considers that the majority of attacks
>>> start at the desktop.   :-)
>>
>> Right.  I just have to convince Elon to pay for a modern web browser for
>> VMS.
> 
> Unless things have changed modern web browsers are available
> Open Source.  All it would take was someone who knew VMS
> development to do the port.  After, of course, someone did
> a port of a modern version of X11 (also opensource).  :-)

It would probably be hard to find a 100% closed source web
browser today.

:-)

But they are pretty big.

It is more than the browser and X.

It would need GTK+ or Qt on top of X.

It would need a JavaScript engine.

It would need uptodate versions of a bunch of graphic
and video libraries.

25 years ago Mosaic and Lynx on VMS was sort of uptodate.

But since then the size of web browsers has increased
by a factor 10 or more and the willingness in VMS
community to work on open source has decreased by
a factor 10 or more.

I don't think it is realistic.

Arne