| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 25 Apr 2001 at 12:37:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Have I got a PC |
hi,
> 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.
1) its a different OS. just as Linux doesnt get infected by these Windows
viruses, neither does the Amiga.
2) you dont have Outlook express with its Macro problems
3) you have a different CPU...code has to be made specifically for
it..unlike the PC viruses which are targetted for Intel CPUs
..you could say that you machine is in pretty much the same boat as the
Mac.... SysAdmins will pick up what that means :-)
> 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)
umm, a lot of musical samplers etc use PC formatted disks..and PCs can
read them...and if theres a virus on the boot sector they'll be infected
(the musical tools wont though as they dont read/execute that stuff)
alan
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