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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
- Message-ID: <ucqJwB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 08:37:17 CST
- References: <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
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- > In article <Bzs05v.6ME@unx.sas.com> sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust) write
- > }
- > }In article <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu>, gershon@husc11.harvard.edu
- > }|> [A rumor in a recent PC mag: Microsoft put together an OS/2 terminator].
- >
- > }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,
- >
- > 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.
-
- Either way,this still sounds like a rumor. If IBM could prove MS did this
- actively, could they go after MS for a type of vandalism?
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