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"Jim Carlock" wrote:

Microsoft doesn't make only one OS.

WinXP has a different oleaut32.dll than Win2k than Win9x than
DOS. Point in case, Microsoft has gone the route of selling 20
operating systems all different in many ways, all similar in many
ways. A global attack on Windows machines won't affect every
Microsoft OS and probably won't even touch DOS.

MS currently sells XP Home, XP Pro and Server 2003. I'm not sure
whether they are currently selling Win2000 (but I don't think so).
That's far fewer than 20 operating systems. A global attack on any MS
system will affect *many, many* computers. How many has Blaster hit?
No, it won't affect DOS, but how many computers use DOS anymore?


Being that DOS IS a variation of Unix whats the difference? That
DOS uses a backslash and Unix uses a forward slash?

DOS is in some ways a pale imitation of Unix. But DOS cannot be said
to be a variation of Unix, there are HUGE differences. Unix was built
to be a multi-user OS to be run on quite large machines. DOS was built
to run on tiny computers that would have all they could do to handle a
single user. They have very little in common.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)