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[pierre]

why is it that mac users are so smug about virus free browsing. I have browsed with windows for years and NEVER had a virus and there are viruses for osx? irix has the least I think. I have no numbers to back this up. :-)

[amigadave]

pierre wrote:
why is it that mac users are so smug about virus free browsing. I have browsed with windows for years and NEVER had a virus and there are viruses for osx? irix has the least I think. I have no numbers to back this up. :-)

I'm not being smug, it is just a choice made due to the odds. I am not aware of any OSX viruses, so I choose to use it instead of Windows for peace of mind. If I had a fast modern Amiga web browser and email client, I would use it instead of the Mac, as I imagine the number of hackers writing Amiga viruses are almost nil at this point in time.

[pierre]

yes there are less...but
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39164062,00.htm
can't imagine there are none, false security..
You would hope there are no new virus for the amiga but the lack of a serious browser takes the amiga out of the browser race! (maybe aweb is just one huge virus?)

[LoadWB]

In best chronological order I can muster:

Computer hardware (owned and used)

TI-99/4A
Commodore 64
Vic-20 (Dead 64 forced this on me for a while)
Commodore SX-64
Atari 800XL
Commodore 128, 128D, and 64C
Amiga 500
MacBook (borrowed from a girlfriend)
Amiga 1000
Amiga 500+
486-DX2/66 (Windows 95/98)
Amiga 4000


Games consoles (owned, played, hacked to some degree)

Atari 2600 *
Sega Genesis/CD
Sega Nomad
NES
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
XBox *
PlayStation
Amiga CD32

* -> the only consoles I owned during its popular lifespan. All others were acquired well after "death"


Operating Systems (used, not necessarily owned, and not all remembered)

Apple ][ DOS/ProDOS
GEM/TOS (not sure what version, on Atari 520ST)
PC-DOS (IBM PS/2 and PCjr)
MS-DOS 3.3 and so on
Atari DOS/HappyDOS
Vax/VMS
OS/9 (limited exposure, but fun)
GEOS64 1.x, 2.0
IBM System/34
MacOS (really bloody old stuff)
GEOS128 2.0
AmigaDOS 1.3 - 3.9
CP/M+ v3 (Commodore 128)
OS/2
Microsoft Windows 2, 3.11 - XP
Sun Solaris 2.4, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
IBM AIX (not sure what version)
Novell (v2, I think)
Various Linux: Slackware, RedHat, SuSe


Programming languages

Many dialects of BASIC (TI, AppleSoft, Apple Integer, CBM 2 and 7, GFA, AmigaBasic, System/34, and various extended BASICs)
Fortran 77 (Vax/VMS)
COBOL (System/34, CP/M+, PC, and Amiga)
RPG-II (System/34)
Pascal (CP/M+) and Turbo Pascal (PC)
ARexx (Amiga) and Rexx (AIX)
GFABasic (Atari 520ST and Amiga)
6502 machine language (C64)
TMS-9900 machine language (TI-99/4A)
Minimal C, C++ (CP/M+, Amiga, PC, Unix)
Good bit of PHP4
Enough Perl to know better
(I wish I had done more Z80 and 680x0, am working on this)


I think that covers it for me...

[BoingBoing]

1 Modded XBox 200GB HD for games/movies/musics
1 Modded XBox that runs my webserver
1 Pentium 4, Ubuntu
1 Compaq laptop, XP
1 Palm Tungsten E2
and...
my Miggy 1200 (My precious)

Everthing is connected by 2 Linksys wireless routers.

[Dandy]

coldfish wrote:
...
What gear have you guys accumulated over the years and what are your impressions of them?

1) Texas Instruments TI 99 4A
2) CBM 620 (wrote a kind of graphical frontend for its DOS 2.2 and ported lots of games from the C64 for it)
3) 2 x A 500 with 020-accelerator & HD's
4) towered A1200 with 030-accelerator
5) towered A4000 with CyberstormPPC/CybervisionPPC, 130 mB, Mediator, Voodoo4, Spider2 USB 2.0 highspeed, Terratec 512i digital, 10/100 mbit NIC,CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-RW, tape streamer, 160 & 4 gB HDs...