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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:21:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
- References: <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu> <Bzs05v.6ME@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <Bzs05v.6ME@unx.sas.com> sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust) writes:
- }
- }In article <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu>, gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- }|> [A rumor in a recent PC mag: Microsoft put together an OS/2 terminator].
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- }YES. It was either Comdex last Fall or Spring. MS went into the IBM
- }booth where OS/2 was up and running and began running their little
- }crash program on every machine they were allowed to walk up to. And,
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- Hmmm... I heard that they would just delete CONFIG.SYS and hit Ctl-Alt-Del.
- That's devastating enough. Combine that with a well place "pssst! We've
- got a program that'll crash OS/2 everytime" rumor and you can do the same
- amount a damage -- and all low tech.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
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