Subj : Re: IPV6 (Was "Notice tha
To   : Dr. What
From : tenser
Date : Mon Feb 21 2022 13:42:46

On 21 Feb 2022 at 05:26a, Dr. What pondered and said...
 
 DW> Good to know.  When I played around in it, it had a MS-DOS look-and-feel
 DW> to me (keep in mind that was only 1 system that FORCED me to have to
 DW> deal with UEFI to get Linux loaded).

You mean the UEFI shell?  I suppose that implements whatever
look and feel the shell's implementors designed it to have.
Sounds like it has some resemblance to DOS, which itself
resembles CP/M and TOPS-10 in many ways.  None of this stuff
was born in a vacuum.  DCL on RSTS/E on the PDP-11 looks
like DCL on VMS on the VAX/Alpha/Itanium (and now x86!), but
the implementations are quite different.

 DW>  te> That's not true.  MSFT has some really crackerjack people
 DW>  te> working on Windows, and has produced some very nice research
 DW>  te> work in security.
 DW> 
 DW> That may be the case.  But there's only so much a great architect can do
 DW> if the ground he's building on is weak.
 DW> 
 DW> I've had to work with Windows for many decades now and while I've
 DW> certainly seen improvement here, Windows "security" remains baroque and
 DW> something tacked on afterwards.

It could certainly be simpler, but the Windows code (by which
I mean the kernel) is actually remarkably good.

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