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From: rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Computer Virus article
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Date: 3 Oct 88 18:33:00 GMT
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The only problem with that article, I think, is that the author
should distinguish the PC's from main frames.  We can not just
simply refer a PC's invasion as an whole computer society disaster.
People should spend more money on workstations, instead of PCs, I
believe.  PC is for Personal Computing only.  The virus thing is easy
for any computer science student to design and implement on PCs but
not as easy if it is a workstation with memory protection.

-Ron Chen   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
            rchen@cs.uiuc.edu