Was secreview crap - now OpenVMS!!

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

> Valdis.Kletnieks () 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

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