Re: US military and confidentiality

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:29:04 -0700

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:48:11 -0400, John Smith <a@nonymous.com> wrote:

> Tom Linden wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:25:20 GMT, Beach Runner <bob@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sharon VAX is STILL a PC. I typically see VAXes and Alphas up for
>>> months or years. How about PCs? PCs are still subject to cyber
>>> attacks. VMS protects our nation. Run on real VMS platforms.
>>> I see Charon VAX a useful place for an engineer who can reboot, and
>>> doesn't need reliability.
>>
>> I think you are somewhat mistaken. Reliability is significantly
>> improved, I use a W2k Dell server as my pop client and for all my
>> business needs, and it never needs rebooting, aside from power
>> outages, it has been up as long as my VMS cluster. As for hacking,
>> this issue has come up before and is
>> a non-issue. I have an emulator running under Linux on a PC with two
>> nic cards,
>> one for Linux and one for VMS . So you could put the Linux behind a
>> firewall
>> and the other not, for example. Which is kind of cute, you could ssh
>> or telnet
>> from one to the other. I ran a collection of PL/I benchmarks on the
>> 650MHz P3
>> and it ran about the same as 4000/90
>
>
> I seem to recall that a VAXstation 4000/60 was about the same speed
> range as
> a 33Mhz 386

Don't know how you can compare them. What I did was to run a collection
of benchmarks, which we have for PL/I which excercise a number of things
including ISAM and the like. And remember these are run under a software
running under Linux, so ther is a fair amount of overhead.

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