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

[Davis Johnson]

Andreas Davour wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Villy Madsen wrote:
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>>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
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>>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...
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>>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>
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>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.
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>/andreas
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The same can be said for all the scripting languages that make it too 
easy to interpret externally provided data as code. I'ts not hard to 
prevent, but it sure isn't helped etc... and exploits are easier to develop.

Gimmie the best of all worlds. Where do I find it?
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