[rescue] Apple Newton

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Wed Sep 3 21:51:48 CDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:30:00PM -0400, Dave McGuire 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.


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