Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!anagld!rcsmith From: rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Trusting operating systems: vendor or university? Message-ID: <440@anagld.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 09:44:43 GMT References: <1128@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <55239@sun.uucp> <1133@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <8013@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith) Organization: Analytics, Inc., Columbia, MD Lines: 26 In article <8013@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: > >This is heavily vendor-dependent. For example, people at Gould would >see a remark on the "gouldbugs" mailing list, draw up the SPR on my >behalf, and send a timely response. That's hard to beat. > Gould also makes all of it's SPR's available to the public by dialup. They have put all of their SPR's in a HyperSearch infobase which is accessible by anyone with a modem. HyperSearch allows you to search the infobase by any word in the document. How's that for exposing yourself? For Doug, please send me some information on the "gouldbugs" mailing list? -- Ray Smith | USnail: Suite 200, 9891 Broken Land Pky, Columbia, MD 21046 Analytics, Inc. | GEnie : rcsmith (301) 381-4300 | CIS : 72000,1111 | Net : ...!uunet!mimsy!aplcen!anagld!rcsmith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -Walt West =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=