On (26 Dec 96) Chris Maddock wrote to Gordon Frey...
 CM> On 24 Dec at 18:52, Gordon Frey of 1:105/55.42 wrote to Chris Maddock:
GF> On (24 Dec 96) Chris Maddock wrote to Jonathan Gobin...
CM>> On 18 Dec at 04:34, Jonathan Gobin of 3:800/3 wrote to Geoff White:
CM>> [......]
JG>> As I said to someone else, IBM clones are a heap of shit. You can't
 CM> expect
GF> clip........
CM>> After how many years after the "PowerMac" came out has it been
 CM> missing
CM>> a (excluding NT) proper native Mac operating system ?
GF> For your information there is a PORT of Linux for the Power Mac.
 CM> Thanks for that Gordon. Interesting. A =real= operating system for a box
 CM> that held so much promise and was compromised by the lack of a native
 CM> operating system for so many years.
 CM> Blasted shame it is.
 CM> Whilst I am a IBM PC Compat user, I appreciate other boxes and operating
 CM> sytems and the benefits (and otherwise) that are on offer.
 CM> I feel that Apple have shot themselves in the foot big time with their
 CM> stranglehold on the Mac PC and this will eventually mean their demise. I
 CM> hope that I am wrong. We need them.
 CM> What has this got to do with Viruses etc ??
Well there are 11,000 + virus for IBM clones but I've been told 
there is less that 50 virus for MACs, and only a few for the other 
platforms( OS/2, unix, linux and Windows NT).  I guess that is 
because of the amount of IBM computers around the world compared 
to the MAC's.
Gordon
... Ignorance of history makes current events surprising.
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