[inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

[Stormwalker]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Bruce Ediger wrote:
>... 
> Well, no, but I don't believe your theory either.  VMS usually gets
> held up as an example of an OS without significant security problems.
> Sorry to tell you, but DEC wrote VMS mainly in VAX-11 assembler.
> The Alpha-CPU port of VMS involved writing a VAX-11 assember compiler,
> and compiling the VAX assembly code to Alpha object code.

    Perhaps my memory is too feeble to know for sure, but when I was
    running VMS so long ago, much of the source code I read was in 
    Bliss[16|32], a macro-like language that only DEC used. 
 
                      cheers, bob