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Message no. 1
From: Allen Versfeld moe@*******.com
Subject: PenguinOS 2061 (was Re: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-) )
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 08:45:23 +0200
Damian Sharp wrote:
>
> All the talk of Mac & Linux people laughing (not that I'm not joining
> in) has me thinking....
>
> Are there 'less popularized' OS's in SR? Maybe someone runs 2060s version
> of MacOS on thier deck and, though they have to write almost everything
> themself, they can feel secure that when the Black IC tries to run on
> thier sytem, it won't find needed files in the system? Any thoughts along
> this line?


IC runs on the matrix host that you're accessing. Similarly, when you
deck in, you're running your software on their computer. Half the
difficulty in decking is simply to get your code to run on the host, as
determined by their security rating. I expect you wouldn't be protected
from Black IC at all by using a non-standard operating system. However,
it's possible that a host using an operating system the decker is
unfamiliar with would be completely unaccessible...

--
Allen Versfeld
moe@*******.com

"As a computer, I find your faith in technology to be quite amusing"
Message no. 2
From: Damian Sharp zadoc@***.neu.edu
Subject: PenguinOS 2061 (was Re: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-) )
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 02:54:57 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Allen Versfeld wrote:

> Damian Sharp wrote:
> >
> > All the talk of Mac & Linux people laughing (not that I'm not joining
> > in) has me thinking....
> >
> > Are there 'less popularized' OS's in SR? Maybe someone runs 2060s version
> > of MacOS on thier deck and, though they have to write almost everything
> > themself, they can feel secure that when the Black IC tries to run on
> > thier sytem, it won't find needed files in the system? Any thoughts along
> > this line?
>
>
> IC runs on the matrix host that you're accessing. Similarly, when you
> deck in, you're running your software on their computer. Half the
> difficulty in decking is simply to get your code to run on the host, as
> determined by their security rating. I expect you wouldn't be protected
> from Black IC at all by using a non-standard operating system. However,
> it's possible that a host using an operating system the decker is
> unfamiliar with would be completely unaccessible...

There's another thought entirely.
Perhaps PenguinCorp keeps all thier networks on the Matrix, but uses
PenguinOS entirely, and doesn't release it to the world. All employees use
a version of PenguinOS in thier decks, and it adapts itself to run on
GenericOS, but not the other way around. Deckers trying to hack in will
have no end of problems, but the corp happily runs on....

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