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From: xd2w@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Bruce Ide)
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Subject: Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V89
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Date: 1 Feb 89 02:43:00 GMT
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       Last five years? Noooo. John Von Neuman (I think) first conceived
of viruses in the ninteen fifties. His collegues (sp?) laughed then,
mainly because computers weren't developed enough for this idea to work
then. The next reference I have to this is the game COREWAR that was
played in the sixties or seventies. I'll send the footnotes to my
research paper at a later date, and you can go read the actual article.
I believe that even during the corewar days the term "Virus" was used.
What is new (5 years or so) is MEDIA COVERAGE of viruses, and this
is probably our problem now.
                                       -Grey Fox