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- From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT Report
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.054841.20809@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <64@nearside.UUCP> <1992Dec21.195317.10599@vpbuild.vp.com> <id.JO3W.L13@ferranti.com> <9212250048.05@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:48:41 GMT
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- In article <9212250048.05@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- >According to my friends who have to program for it, NT has no relation to
- >any operating system known to man, and they wish it would go away.
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- Well, given the Win32 API based on the Windows API, and something that
- looks very similar to VMS internally, I find this very hard to
- believe.
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- >The Windows 3.x support on NT is such that a hacker could easily write a
- >Windows app that would walk right through NT's security.
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- Please tell us more about this security hole.
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- >Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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- PJDM
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