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echo: os2prog
to: Robert King
from: Carl Neal
date: 1995-01-02 19:46:02
subject: Re: Virus Hysteria

RK> It's sad, the level of ignorance present in the 
 RK> OS/2 community. You show me  a stupid basic 
 RK> application that relies on the operating system 
 RK> to do any  and all I/O. Virusi by-pass the operating 
 RK> system entirely. Get it? Good.   Robert

Only ring 0 device drivers have hardware access under OS/2. Even DOS
programs under OS/2 just think they are acccessing the hardware, but are
really running through an OS/2 emulation.

You should remember that once you load OS/2 much of what you learned from
DOS goes out the window.

And if you are capable of doing OS/2 device drivers, there are jobs with
six figure paychecks out there waiting for you.

Carl

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