On (06 Apr 97) Steve Bennett wrote to Kurt Wismer...
 SB> Hey Kurt,
SW> either you're research exposed you to misinformation on the dates, or
SW> you have a mis-specified definition of computer virus...
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 SB> Seems to me though that viruses should have been much easier to write
 SB> in old computers and old operating systems.  Files were smaller,
 SB> memory smaller, operating systems less complicated.  Do you recall
 SB> when the first australian one was?  I thought it was 89..
NO viruses pre IBM PC days where harder to write.  I can still 
remember the IBM 1620... It had only 32K of ram!  And before some 
of the early computers the memory was in the kilo byte range.  
I'll tell you anything like a virus would be noticed very fast as 
there would be errors all over the place as the programs crashed 
out as they ran out of ram.  At the time that the IBM PC came 
about each computer had its own floppy disk format.  You could not 
take a KPro disk over to your freinds and read it with his non-KPro 
computer!
Gordon
... 90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
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