"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
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While those kinds of things can lead to problems (mis-interpretations,
etc), it could also have had some significant benefits. Even if only a
few
vendors survived future competitive thinning, the differences in
implementations would have reduced vulnerability to virus problems, since
it would be unlikely that the same holes would exist in all
implemenations.

Having seen what the boys from Ft Meade can do, I'm confident in asserting
that _any_ system is vulnerable to the infinite number of monkeys out there.