vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Fri Jun 4 12:36:55 2004

> I think you don't recall correctly, or perhaps you never heard of the
> Morris worm. It's been a while since I read up on it, but I'm fairly
> sure one of its spreading mechanisms involved a VAX machine-language
> grappling hook.

I would think the reason that the older machines do not have worms and
virus (generally) is that ciding them back then was simply not
in style. 20 years ago, if a worm was released for VMS, would it make the
news? Would anyone outside of a few thousand sysadmins really care? What
glory would there be for the hacker? Not much...

I think the "first" was written on a Univac system.
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 12:36:55 BST