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-=> Quoting Robert King to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard <=-
RK|It's sad, the level of ignorance present in the OS/2 community.
Yup, you got that right. Only it ain't JdeBP you're talking about!
| You show me
| a stupid basic application that relies on the operating system to do any
|and all I/O. Virusi by-pass the operating system entirely. Get it? Good.
Just for kicks, boot up a VDM and run something that bypasses the OS
entirely, a sector editor, a DOS game or something. Hmmm... run the DOS game
in a window. Hey, isn't that doing DIRECT SCREEN WRITES? Why does it only
print in a window?
Yo-Han
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* MR/2 #261 * Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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