Re: OS noise [Was: a hole in PGP]

[Nathan Zook <nzook@bga.com>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Phil Fraering wrote:

> For better or for worse, we all must use programs (or collections
> of programs) that large or larger: even if PGP could be implemented
> in 1 % of the current source code, it would still be running in an
> operating system that's cramped in 4 megabytes of ram, because that's
> a characteristic of the common modern operating systems.

Ahem!  Commiedore APOLOGIED when it released its 512K OS a couple of 
years ago.  These things _don't_ have to be this large.

> The operating systems PGP is running in are larger than PGP itself;

Got that straight!

> which isn't a bad idea. This isn't meant to be a disendorsement of
> Unix.)

Oh, please!  Now that I'm back with my direct connection, I want another 
OS holy war!  I want to killfile LOTS of people (or two people in 
particular).

> What OS should I use to do this? Should I just give up on anything
> beyond TRS-DOS 6.2?

No!  Use UltraDos.  Much better!

Nathan

Now THAT's noise....