Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--8f0639-But when they first got this T/en

But when they first got this Twenex system they had several changes in mind that they wanted to make. Changes in the way security worked. They also wanted to have the machine on both the ARPA network and the MIT-chaos network, and it turns out that they were unable to do this, that they couldn't get anyone who was sufficiently competent to make such changes. There was no longer talent available to do it, and it was to hard to change. That system was much harder to understand, because it was to poorly written, and of course, Digital wouldn't do these things, so their ideas that a commercial system would essentially maintain itself, proved to be mistaken. They had just as much need for system hackers, but they had no longer the means to entice system hackers. And nowadays at MIT there are more people interested in hacking on ITS than there are interested in hacking on Twenex.