Just to add to this,
When a mac user dials home in Cupertino,Ca to get help, the call is
answered by a bigger IBM computer.
Bob B
(retired IBM service)
At 06:54 AM 2/6/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>I think you'll find that quite a few people would notice. For a start,
>Microsoft do all of their product development on Macs - they then run
>it through a compiler and publish it as PC code (I felt really superior
>when I was told this about 10 years ago). You will also miss all your
>big-budget special-effects movies - most of those are developed on
>Macs. AND I think you'll find that the Unix-based OS X is extremely
>resilient to virii, part of the reason supercomputers rarely go down
>with them and part of the reason Apple switched to it.
>
>Craig :-)
>
>
>On Friday, Feb 6, 2004, at 02:04 Europe/London, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
>
>>
>>HI Guys,
>>
>>Macs are not immune from virus attacks - there is no inherent
>>superiority in the mac architecture in this regard. Fact is less than
>>10% of computers on the planet are mac based - if all of them crashed
>>at the same time due to a virus, nobody would even notice! Virus
>>programmers want more action than that !
>>
>>Jeremy
>>
>>
>>From: "Todd Vess" <toddvess@comcast.net>
>>Reply-To: the Land Rover Owner Mailing List <lro@koan.team.net>
>>To: "the Land Rover Owner Mailing List" <lro@koan.team.net>
>>Subject: RE: [lro] bad stuff
>>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:45:25 -0700
>>
>>
>>Jim: You're the second person I've met this year who "saves" viruses
>>on his
>>computer. One of our volunteer firefighters, who is also our tech
>>support
>>guy, collects them on his Mac. I'd never even paid attention to viruses
>>until two years ago when I switched from working at a newspaper that
>>was all
>>Mac-based to our PC-based system at the fire dept. We spend more bloody
>>money on virus software. . .
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Todd Vess
>>Windsor, Colorado
>>1972 Land Rover SIII 109" 5-door "Effie"
>>1972 Land Rover SIII 88" Wagon "Ursula"
>>1967 Morris Mini Cooper "Chloe"
>>2000 Ford Excursion "The Black Pearl"
>>1971 Piaggio Ciao Moped "Pedelia" A frightful mess
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: lro-bounces+toddvess=comcast.net@koan.team.net
>>[mailto:lro-bounces+toddvess=comcast.net@koan.team.net]On Behalf Of
>>jimfoo
>>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:57 PM
>>To: the Land Rover Owner Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [lro] bad stuff
>>
>>
>>
>>Not job security from me. Never had an anti-virus program. I just pay
>>attention to my e-mail, and don't use IE or Outlook. In fact for some
>>reason, I decided to save the different viruses I recieve, sort of a
>>collection I guess. And no, my computer has never been infected.
>>
>>trevor_easton@dofasco.ca wrote:
>> >
>> >
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------- -
>>------------------
>> > definition of wasted genius: the b*st*rds who spend their time
>>inventing
>> > viruses.
>> >
>> > Best Cheers
>> >
>> > Frank
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > But isn't it the bastards from Norton, McAfee et al, who create
>>these for
>>job security?
>> >
>> > Sure come up with fixes fast don't they.
>>
>>--
>>Jim Hall
>>1966 88" Elephant Chaser
>>1987 RR Classic
>>http://webs.purplemountain.net/jimfoo/Foospage.htm
>>"You know, I never really damaged my Rover 'till I started wheeling
>>with Jim." Mitch Stockdale
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