Re: Apple Computer sides with Satan

"Brian Tung" <brian@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d7t8o8$2hq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> David Nakamoto wrote:
>> My experience with early Unix was that the computer was not that secure.
>> It might have changed in the 10 years I've last worked on a Unix system,
>> but that's what I remembered.
>
> What--you mean in the 1970s? Yes. But at that time, there were zero
> secure OS's by today's standards.

Is your calculator out of juice, or you forgot your new math? 2005 - 10 =
1995, the last time I checked, right now.

As for the rest of your message, which I cut off for brevity, I was referring to
Solaris on Sun Systems, but at that time, Windows in any incarnation except NT
4.0 (was it out then?) was even worse, but I don't remember the specifics, just
that there were some security issues. A lot of water has gone under the bridge
in terms of computers and OSs I've used since then.

Sorry about the misuse of the reference to The Man. I was using it in terms of
the general status quo, the most common denominator, the assumed standard, not
specifically to Microsoft. I don't think of Microsoft as The Man, but more like
that thing depicted in the MacIntosh commercial by Ridley Scott.

--- Dave
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