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Let the 1980-1990 viruses resurrect! :-)
by Fastidious 11y ago
Let the 1980-1990 viruses resurrect! :-)
- 6502nerdface 11y agoThose viruses are now like characters in a Charles Stross novel, archived for an eternity of being resurrected by tinkerers in simulated DOS universes, briefly blossoming to spread and infect simulated SYS.COMs and COMMAND.COMs, maybe even crossing network bridges into other simulated DOS machines, only to be terminated when the simulations end, again and again.
- WalterGR 11y agoMicrosoft _is_ good about backwards compatibility...
- bbcbasic 11y agoMy first thought when I saw the post. Wouldn't touch with a bargepole. But others... enjoy!
- userbinator 11y agoViruses back then were more of an annoying nuisance than a big threat to privacy/security... compared to malware today which is almost certainly for commercial gains of some sort.