Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 05/24/05

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    Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:29:09 +0000 (UTC)

    Eric Cordian wrote:

    > In sci.crypt David Gay <dgay@beryl.cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I think this summarises the main problem with your argument. Languages
    >>don't get popular without doing something right (and in fact, probably
    >>something that no then-available language did right).
    >
    >
    > It seems such an argument could also be applied to operating systems.
    > What did MS DOS do right, particularly the early versions, around the
    > time it became a billion dollar a year business?

    1. MSDOS opens files, closes them, copies files, print files accepts
    input from the user and runs programs. The rest is a luxury.

    2. Microsoft accepted payment for DOS when the hardware was used to run
    CPM and Unix.

    Andrew Swallow

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