[rescue] Apple Newton
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Sep 3 21:53:44 CDT 2003
On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 10:51 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Well...when you consider that the world's buggiest piece of software
>> (Windows) and the largest virus infection case in history (dBase II)
>> are both commercial products, I'd have to say "who gives a shit about
>> commercial software". I run better stuff, and it's free. :)
>
> There was a dBase II virus that infected more machines than the Windows
> worms and email virii of the last few years? I didn't think there
> *were* that many PCs in use when dBase II was current.
It was the largest case of a virus that was *distributed* with a
commercial product.
-Dave
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