Some main frames do run Windows.  MSN, MSNBC, Hotmail, Sympatico of
Canada, run a Windows product.  But Microsoft hasn't had much luck
selling their mainframe software to non-microsoft sites.  It's
apparently buggier than Linux.

Would like the phone numbers of the victims in question?



On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:56 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 02:00:19PM -0400, Mark Wallace wrote:
> > Buying Microsoft won't get you fired until you get a virus into your
> > mainframe.  My nephew runs the computer systems for a university and
> > they had a lot of data wiped out and oh, brother!
> 
> Care to try again?
> 
> Mainframes don't run windows.
> 
> They also don't run intel processors.
> 
> There is no virus which windows could "get onto a mainframe".
> 
> -m
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