On 15/04/02 09:30, "BOURGUIGNON D DvSI/SNPI MTY"
<didier.bourguignon_at_francetelecom.com> wrote:
>> Certainly! All the original Mac stuff was Pascal. That's
>> why all Mac C/C++
>> compilers since ancient times have had provisions to do 'pascal'
>> declaration. As I recall, what you find is that many Toolbox
>> calls in other
>> languages are just wrappers that ensure the arguments are
>> cast properly and
>> placed on the stack in Pascal ordering, then they do an
>> inline assembly call
>> to the appropriate Toolbox routine.
>>
>
> That's maybe why Mac OS is more secure than Win$
The main reason why the Classic MacOS has been more secure was that it
didn't have any shell or command line mode, so you couldn't remotely login
on it.
Now, with OS X, this is a little bit different since there is now the
ability to remotely logon, but I would trust Unix security anytime over
Windows...
-Laurent.
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