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"John Steinberg" wrote in message
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Jon Isaacs wrote:

Here's a nice link:

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/macintoshthreats/

What's nice about it? There are no Mac OS X threats (other than
clueless PC users, careless programmers and a behemoth in Redmond that
can spend many months creating a single critical patch.) None, Jon. No
malware of any consequence for OS X.

You can put me on that list as well. Lots of reasons to stick with
Windows.
For me, I still run DOS and Win 3.1 programs under XP. Besides that
fact that
these programs never existed for the Mac, it is nice that they still
run 10 or
15 years later.

I'll blow some sunshine your way. Here we agree. Indeed, I still run
apps on my Mac that are older than Britney Spears.

(For those of you who don't believe that PC programs exist that will
do things
Macs cannot, try this one: Read Nicolet 4094 data off the Nicolet
5.25in 720K
disks with that proprietary Nicolet format. Its a plus that it got
the bar
dispersion correction built in.....)

Haven't tried to do that (doesn't sound like a particularly mainstream
issue) but I can and do run Virtual PC on my Macs for just about any PC
program that I need, and I would submit that would be true for
most/many. Good that the bar dispersion correction is built in,
though. Hate to imagine a world where bars were not dispersed. Can
you run *any* OS X apps on your Win PC? Nope. Can I run WinXP apps on
my Mac? Yup.

Frankly, your comment above is tantamount to my saying I can run a
Mac-only program and you can't. So what? How fatuous. Surely you can
drum up a more cogent argument?

Of course, all of this simply glosses over and/or ignores the issue
here, and that's the unassailable fact that the Windows PC remains the
single greatest threat to the computing universe. Happy you're happy
being a part of that particular group, but I know I wouldn't be too
quick to crow about it, and I own Windows PCs as well. One, thankfully,
running Linux and the other two hobbled by the hideous, balky,
virus-prone, bugly, OSes from MS.

Just say no, to Windows!

--
-John Steinberg
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If you do real work on computers then try SolidWorks, Cosmos and Working
Model for starters. It wouldn't be too hard to come up with other reasons
.... $$$$$ again for starters.

I have only had trouble once with viruses and the like and that was years
ago (~1989?) before I knew better on how to deal with them. I quickly
wised up. Keep your anti-virus software up-to-date, don't open suspicious
looking attachments and use a firewall and you'll eliminate 99.9% of the
problem. I haven't had that .01% crop up yet in probably 15 years.