[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/22/2023 11:06 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 10:48 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> If DEC had been able to see into the future then they
>> may have gone with C.
> 
> IF they had, VMS would have had a shitload of exploits against it.
> Thankfully they didn't and avoided a lot of issues that plagues most
> operating systems written in C.

Maybe.

C is very unsafe compared to almost all other high level
languages.

But I don't think it is more unsafe than Macro-32.

:-)

Anyway: Windows and Linux has not failed commercially
due to the buffer overflows.

:-)

Arne