Re: VMS Cracked! [was: Linux is the favourite hacker target]
From: Keith Parris (keithparris_NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/28/03
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Date: 28 Sep 2003 14:19:48 -0700
"Dave Weatherall" <djweath@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:<DTiotGxQ0bj6-pn2-5vsHnx20rsFe@localhost>...
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:28:58 UTC, keithparris_NOSPAM@yahoo.com (Keith
> Parris) wrote:
> > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote in message news:<3F7489E1.5487941D@istop.com>...
> > > But when they hired Cuttler and al to write NT, (and windows 95)
> >
> > Windows 95 was not Cutler's -- that's what NT had to be compatible
> > with.
>
> My memory tells me that issues about NT/Win95 compatability came about
> with NT4.
JF indicated Cutler's team also wrote Windows 95. My point was that
Cutler did not work on Windows 95 -- his team worked on NT.
And my second point was that NT had to be compatible with the existing
applications portfolio from Windows 3.1/95/etc.:
> > You can't have a clean slate and backward compatability at the same
> > time.
>
> I get the impression that there is general 'down' on backward
> compatibility at the minute. Is it vogue? It is _not_ a bad thing. It
> is one of VMS's major strengths.
Backward compability in general is very good, and is demanded by
users. The problem on the Windows platform is that backward
compatability requires giving applications the same low-level, direct
(and thus unprotected) access to hardware that early Windows versions
provided, which is a very bad thing for security.
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