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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Summary: re: binary compatibilities
Message-ID: <368@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 88 23:00:04 GMT
References: <681@zehntel.UUCP> <3084@hermes.ai.mit.edu> <4197@thorin.cs.unc <2720@sugar.uu.net>
Organization: one bitchin' 3b1 in Tx.Houston.the-Montrose
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In article <2720@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
[re: virus propagation]
> (2) It's harder for a virus to infect UNIX, also, because it's unlikely that
> 68020 code from a sun would do much to a Microvax or even a 68010 machine
> like a 3b1. A binary standard is a two-edged sword.

An interesting side note:  binaries from various Convergent Technologies 
'frames are said to run quite well on the Unix-PC aka Convergent Technologies
Safari 4.

Maybe we should try some uVAX binaries on flatline.... :-)
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