Re: VMs: RE: And the VMS' big secret is...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 12:10 02/08/2003 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>         Nah,
>
>         It's too much work for a proof of concept. Demos are invariably the
> quick and dirty basic functions - if you want to see more, you pay for
> full development. I doubt your 15th century entrepreneur would have put
> that amount of effort into a proof of concept-then never used it himself
> even
> when nobody else bought into it.

Well... would you agree that if the diagrams represent what I think, they 
would be somewhat out of place in anything but a proof-of-concept 
demonstration?

As for whether it's a disproportionate amount of effort - what would it 
take for you to be convinced that a brand new (and otherwise untried) 
crypto system could handle everything you could throw at it?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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