[Simh] Simh on Windows - long startup delays and long shutdown delays

[Toby Thain]

On 16-Dec-07, at 10:57 PM, Andreas Davour wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Villy Madsen wrote:
>
>> I read a nice little article recently.  It talked about Security  
>> on Multics.
>> It mentioned that the O/S had been written in PL/I
>>
>> It also suggested that it was very hard to program a situation in  
>> PL/I that
>> would ALLOW a buffer overflow
>> and that it was very hard to program a situation in C that would  
>> PREVENT a
>> buffer overflow...
>>
>> I do use C - mostly to hack SimH and microcontrollers... I feel much
>> much more secure programming in Pascal (Delphi) or Fortran.  At least
>> they don't assume that I know what I am doing <G>
>
> I wouldn't say it's very hard to prevent in C, but it sure isn't  
> helped.
> You can do it, and it's easy, but it also takes thought and intention.
> Dave is very right about the amount of non-excellent C programmers  
> is a
> problem. Putting something like C in their hands is asking for  
> problems.

Aren't we blessed to have nearly 40 years of language development,  
post-C, to fall back upon. :-)

--Toby

>
> /andreas
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