On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:45:57PM -0800, Javilk wrote:
> A large portion of the older UNIX machines were corporate owned, only
> available to older, trusted persons for specific uses, making them less
> available targets to get started on. Even in Universities, there is more
> of a trust and goal thing.
Huh? We already had tens of thousands of Unix users at Purdue 15 years ago;
and we were far from the only site with such a large population. By the
end of the 80's, there were millions of academic Unix users on everything
from 8xxx-series Vaxes to Sequents to Sun workstations to NeXT boxes.
We had our share of miscreants. ;-)
> In contrast, DOS/Windows platforms are consumer products, readily
> available to younger teenagers with plenty of time on their hands, and
> egos that, well, can be amazing.
Well, that's certainly true. They're also really bad pieces of software,
and so they lend themselves to viruses, worms, trojan horses, and other
forms of malware much more readily.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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