• zero_iq@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    VMS implemented ACLs in the early 80s. It’s design influenced the design of ACLs in both AIX and Windows NT.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m familiar with VMS, and Cutler bringing a lot of the internal design to W/NT. (I’m told in particular a lot of the data structures for system calls in NT look like VMS.) My AIX experience has consisted entirely of “This is weird. This isn’t normal for Unix.” Ha ha. (I had a 1st gen RS/6000 at home briefly in the late 90s.)

      And I do have a “grey wall” in my library:

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