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From: Otto.Makela@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: ways to circumvent viri attack, maybe (PC)
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Date: 6 Dec 90 14:22:30 GMT
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frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
[on running software from zip files]
   One problem, however, is that you cannot zip COMMAND.COM, so you would
   have to boot from a write-protected floppy, and insert the system disk
   as needed.

I've wondered why DOS-on-ROM has never been a big hit in Europe.
When I was in the US last June, I was sold a PC/AT that I only afterwards
realized had DOS 3.31 (supports 32M+ partitions) on ROM.  I mean, they
didn't even bother to advertise this feature separately.
Of course updates are a bit more difficult, but I think the added speed and
security compensate quite well.
(In case you are wondering, it had BIOS support for reading CONFIG/AUTOEXEC
from the hard disk instead from the ROM :-)
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