Re: Clearing SWAP

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:15:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/10/08 17:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> >>> And a workstation running OpenVMS was considered so unhackable at
> >>> DEFCON9 that it wasn't allowed back the next year.
> >> and VMS, unlike unix, since the beginning was planned with solid
> >> security in mind. In the times where classification into A,B,C,D
> >> security made sense, there were VMS B-certified machines (the maximum
> >> level, except for the lack of a formal mathemetical proof of that level
> >> of security). And Digital never had to hide the code from the eyes of
> >> the world, so that everybody could know the quality of the code (any
> >> reference to proprietary software widely used today, and which is not of
> >> the same level of quality as VMS, is purely wanted).
> > 
> > I'll have to look at OpenVMS.  Is it still maintained?
> 
> Sure.  HP still makes lots of money off of it.
> 
> >                                                          Will it run on
> > my old 486?
> 
> Well, no.  But you might find a VAXstation of similar power on Ebay.

Thanks,

I had a look at the wikipedia article for OpenVMS.  It seems that the
Open is a misnomer.

Is anybody working on an OpenOpenVMS?

:)

Doug.