On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:26:56 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
 declaimed the following:

>filing system. Maybe better features of these couldn't be beaten into the
>thick heads in Microsoft?

 Some of them did get in... Since some of WinNT was inspired by DEC's
VMS...  And I doubt anyone would claim VMS is an insecure OS given how
heavily it was used for defense related work.

 Unfortunately, they didn't scrap the MS-DOS command line and file
naming...  (Come on... Why allow drives/partitions to have volume NAMES
when you can't use the name to reference them! Strangely, AmigaOS better
matched VMS when it came to things like volume and logical [which are NOT
related to UNIX/Windows environment variables] names) and the requirement
to maintain 16-bit compatibility probably made the user-level much weaker
for security.

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story
https://everything2.com/title/The+similarities+between+VMS+and+Windows+NT


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