Re: [Phys-l] laptops banned from class

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Yes, -- and my point was purchasing an Apple is buying a platform and an 
OS -- they are inseparable *.  Every one has pointed out, who's going to 
write a virus for 3 => 5% of the market?  Apple's switch to UNIX and 
their frequent security upgrades ** indicate a marketing hope.

* If I buy an emulator, I'll purposely invite a virus, ... after 
mirroring the HD!
** I don't remember getting any 'till 10.4.

bc, who used Athena (MIT) for years at UCSC.

Brian Blais wrote:

> Bernard Cleyet wrote:
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> > Maybe I'll give up and buy (Gates writes purchase is pretentious.) a 
> > windows emulator.
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> > p.s. About the nit pick: is it Apple's OS or the platform that resists 
> > viruses, consider, is there an Apple OS emulator for the IBM platform?
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> It a combination of Mac's New OS (Unix-based) and market-share.  When Macs first came
> out, there were *only* viruses on Macs.  This was because of the active nature of the
> OS, and other security issues, as well as being the new kid on the block.  Now there
> are pretty much only Windows viruses.  This is because they have a large majority of
> the marketshare (easy target) and their security model is pretty poor.  Unix has been
> around for a long, long time.  Their permissions structure is resistant to viruses,
> any security holes found are dealt with pretty quickly.
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