[R-390] OT: virus check time

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I'll offer an opinion to that of Les since I've been messing with operating
systems for about 25 years now. I've seen a lot of them come and go. Some
were quite good and some are still quite pitiful. Currently, I'm running Mac
OS 8 and OS 9 on my Mac. I'm also running Windows 98 on it. We also have a
Pentium III running Windows 98.

I think that the Mac OS X is the best operating system out there right now.
It is a true Linux OS from the ground up. No patches, no shells like
Windows, and no jumpers or interrupts to mess with. No DOS running
underneath everything. Just Linux and the Mac Finder for the GUI. I say this
because it is a very refined OS after 17 years of work and improvements. I'm
not running it at this moment but I will install it soon. I have only
recently gotten used to OS 9 and I'm going to spend a bit more time with it
before making the big jump to X.

Some of the best comments on OS X have come from the PC magazines and
reviewers. I would have to recommend X if it came on a crappy Amiga, or a
crappy Atari ST, or a Coleco, or a Pong console. It is just a class act from
the very beginning with no compromises.

What Les said about virus' is true. But, to give credit where credit is due,
the DOS file allocation table design is one of the best. The directory is
pretty good, it makes sense, and is somewhat easily repaired. The FAT has
always been a good idea. Atari TOS copied it, as well as the format for disk
layout except for a 6 byte deviation. Atari did this 6 byte thing to detect
disk swapping, and it wasn't a very good idea in the long run. That's
because harddrives became affordable and IBM used that 6 byte code to
determine floppies, harddrives, CDROMs, etc.



the other other Barry


> In a message dated 6/30/02 12:19:34 PM, barry@hausernet.com writes:
> 
> << So ... if you get that Master Boot Record warning, think twice about
> letting
> 
> Norton fix it.  First, it might not be broken.  Second ... it may well break
> 
> it for you.  At this point, I don't know what caused that warning to come up
> 
> and how to deal with it in the future, other than to ignore it first.
> 
> 
> Barry
> 
>>> 
> 
> The ultimate cure is to not have Windoze..........:-)
> 
> Never had a glimmer of a "virus" with the iMac.
> 
> 
> 
> Les Locklear
> 
> " The two most abundant things in the
> universe are hydrogen and stupidity ".
> 
> Harlan Ellison