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Re: Modern hw-killing virus feasible


From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh () POP JARING MY>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:15:17 +0800

At 06:56 PM 07-03-2001 -0800, Blue Boar wrote:

Then there are things like CIH.  Don't know if I would call
those dead hardware per se... certainly, they can make life suck,
but technically, it's just killed software that would be

Nowadays it seems to me that the difference between software and hardware
is who has to configure it.

Software is what you do yourself :). Hardware is what you get someone else
to do.

For many people, almost everything is hardware.

For a CPU engineer, modern microprocessors are software, programmable with
microcode, even more so with Transmeta processors.

I'm sure for many of our bosses, most of the stuff we're talking about here
is hardware to them- "I want that hardware up by Monday".

Cheerio,
Link.


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