[Full-disclosure] Was secreview crap - now OpenVMS!!
- From: "Randal T. Rioux" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:13:48 -0500
Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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
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