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Are you kidding? Classic MacOS was riddled with viruses and it was made worse by the fact that they were used by designers who, as a matter of habit and necessi
by astrodust 9y ago
Are you kidding? Classic MacOS was riddled with viruses and it was made worse by the fact that they were used by designers who, as a matter of habit and necessity, would exchange disks with random people and use them in random computers.
In the 1990s visiting a copy shop with Macs was like going to a sketchy by Thai standards brothel. You were almost guaranteed to come back with some new infection. You'd reasonably quarantine anything that came back from your print shop until you could scan it. The temptation to hold your Syquest disk with rubber tongs was there.
Switching the processor PowerPC made many of the viruses incompatible, but they weren't fully eliminated until the switch to OS X was complete.
- savoytruffle 9y agoSwitching from 68k to PPC, the emulator was good enough to emulate mixed sections of the actual operating system. Viruses weren't foiled that way.
- astrodust 9y agoNot many, but some that were from the early days of the 68K line were finally put out of their misery.