Re: Which is better?

Robert Heller wrote:
Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, In a message on Tue, 21 Mar
2006 02:17:15 GMT, wrote :

SF> The Natural Philosopher wrote: SF> SF> >> The Morris Worm attacked
Sendmail and finger on *SunOS*, not VMS! VMS SF> >> was never affected
AFAIK. And those versions of Sendmail and finger are SF> >> long long
gone. SF> >> SF> > SF> > I think not. Check again. SF> > SF> > It may
have been Unix, but it was definitely a DEC machine, not a sun. SF> >
that caught it first.... SF> SF> SF> I think that it answers the OP
nicely. SF> You have to use "microscopic" pincers to find in this
enviroment SF> something that presents itself as "tsunami" on other
OS's(t/m).

The Morris Worm was (AFAIK) the only UNIX *worm* (not even a virus) that
had any major impact. It was *decades* ago, back before there was much
in the way of a computer security consciousness. It might even have
pretty much predated any version of MS-Windows.

It was in November 1988. I do not know when the MS Windows first started
spreading around the Internet. I did not notice it until the early 1990s
when it was so slow, so buggy, and so inept (hard to write decent
applications with only 16-bit addresses) that I quit using it until I got
Windows 95 in mid 1998. It was prettier than the first Windows I saw, but
not much better. At least by then you could write 32-bit applications.

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