Enough with the MS bashing, please

From: johnb <dylanb_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri May 5 17:42:40 2000

----- Original Message -----
From: Gareth Knight <gaz_k_at_lineone.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Enough with the MS bashing, please


> Will Jennings
> >I'm using Win > 98SE right now, and our NT server has been running
> continuously for about 4
> > years now, no crashes at all. And I do have experience with other OS's,
I
> > also run BeOS on my machine,
>

<snip>

The idea behind writing a virus is to hit the *masses*, fast and hard.
Windows is the most used client O/S by far. If DEC or Linux was used by
everyone at home then considerable effort would have gone into making a
virus for those platforms.

Can you imagine someone wasting the time to write a virus for Atari or
Amiga? It would infect what? 2 computers maybe?

John
Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 17:42:40 BST