Waitman,

The one I had personal experience with was OpenVMS. Microsoft been paying owners of that OS boo-coo bucks to kill it off for years. Killing it off means going to prison though and Microsoft isn't willing to pay that price. HP did find a loophole though, you could fire all of the core developers and just let the OS coast, so that is what they did.

TandemĀ  c89
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02128447

some mention of possible c11
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02128447

but COBOL only goes to COBOL85 so C11 can't be complete
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02128447

Unisys appears to be in same boat.
https://public.support.unisys.com/2200/docs/cp16.0/pdf/78310422-012.pdf
UCS C is written in accordance with the specifications of the American National Standards Institute, Inc. in American National Standard for Information Systems
Programming Language C, X3.159-1989


Basically any of the older platforms which were used in the high volume high availability severe security financial worlds. The vendors may have went away, but the platforms didn't. Don't be surprised to find financial institutions still running on Prime computers. Once a proprietary system gets past a certain age, it gains in security rather than loses. It becomes less and less compatible with everything else making a breach harder and harder.

They don't "need" remote logging. New regulations to combat identity theft by making financial institutions far more liable for breaches force remote logging on them. Various "monitoring" services now exist. They only accept the latest syslog message "standard" RFC5424. I assume that is because it is one guy with a cast-off Pentium computer running some free Linux distro having gotten a direct domain for their spare bedroom/basement.

Not just system level errors, but application, failed password, everything must be routed. Most of the older OS don't have a central error logging system, but, rather, things are split off because different groups would be responsible for them.

These outside services are just there to check a "do not go to prison" box. I've yet to hear about any of them actually detecting and stoppingĀ  a breach. I've also not heard of any breach cases involving a third party monitor going to court to see how the finger pointing played out.

On 12/23/2018 4:00 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Dec 22, 2018, 1:05 PM, Roland Hughes wrote:

[snip]

Try porting it to a non-Linux platform where the C compiler only goes up
to the first half of C99.

[/snip]

Only Curious.. example of platform that is not Linux and only has 'first half 
of C99' (and needs remote logging too, i suppose) ?

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