[Full-disclosure] Was secreview crap - now OpenVMS!!

[Randal T. Rioux]

>Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu said:

>Bonus points for knowing that VMS was mostly written in Bliss/32 or some 
>such, and VM and MVS were a mixture of assembler and (later on) PL/S. 
>No C knowledge needed for those critters...

OpenVMS is less than 40% Blissful... though I'm not familiar with the original source (wasn't it written on stone tablets?). About 50% is C, with a healthy mix of obsoletes making the difference. How something so elegant could be spawned from such chaos is beyond me.

Mostly, the VMS basic OS utilities are Bliss-based (think: GNU). 

I really wish HP would open OpenVMS before they kill it.

Security relevance: UNHACKABLE! <grin>

Randy