LANtastic and coax..... good times.....

On Feb 19, 2008 4:21 PM, Eric E Eskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> James Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/19/2008 02:33:43 PM:
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> > The old foggies on the list might remember back to the pre-Windows days
> > when PC's ran DOS and the majority of viruses and worms were on the
> > Macintosh. Anyone remember "Worm Food"???
>
> 1)  That was a different version of the Mac OS then the OS X
> 2)  PC's still had more viri
> 3)  A free little program by the name of Disinfectant pretty much put a
> stop to new viruses on the Mac in the mid 90's.  Sure there were still new
> ones, but nothing like the late 80's/early 90's
>
> You tended to see more widespread virus issues with Mac's since with
> AppleTalk built in, Mac's tended to be networked far earlier then their PC
> brethren (remember LANtastic or Windows for Warehouses, ARCnet, and paying
> for TCP/IP on PC's?!?)
>
> Eric Eskam
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> protein; it rejects it."
> -  P. B. Medawar
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