| From: | Anthony W. Prime |
| Date: | 24 Apr 2001 at 21:51:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Have I got a PC |
G.A.Griggs. On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 you wrote:
>Now you may think that I'm entirly of my truck but, can by any strech of the
>imagination can you consider the Amiga to be a PC. The reason I ask is work
>related. The company has brought out some new rules in light of a virus by
>e-mail scare last week. Needless to say I don't have to mention the name of
>the program involved ;-). This memo basiclly says I can't use my Amiga at
>home for non-company related word proccessing for fear of infecting the PC's
>at work (P.S I should'nt even be typing this E-mail but if you won't tell I
>won't). Natually I will be trying to explain to them that there is no chance
>off cross infection because of differnces in CPU's, File systems etc.
Does the Memo say PC? It's the hair splitting convention but if it does you
can claim to be in the clear. Sadly though most Tech Support types who would
rely on your (and your colleagues) kind nature and good sense as their
primary defence against viral infection are unlikely to listen to you as they
will be busy trying to find out how to protect Outlook from Foot and Mouth :/
And talking of hair splitting "non-company related word processing". Surely
that's a misprint? If not they're sort of asking you not to drive your own
car, to save wear and tear on the works van :/
>Basically what I want is pointing at some source of infomation so that I can
>back up the argument. I already have one line which I admit is a bit weak in
>that just because it's a floppy disk do'nt mean the information is PC
>readable, I can back it up as my next door but one neighbour is a
>proffessonally plays the Organ. One of his Yamaha's uses Floppies but even
>My Amiga can't read them due to the fact the information is stored as an
>analoge not digital signal. The reason my argument is weak is that I have no
>idea if the PC can read thoose. (Be a first to my knowledge)
yes they can, but only with a piece of software downloadable from the Yamaha
website.
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