[Gllug] MS grumbles

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:48:05PM +0000, Christopher Currie wrote:
>   
>> Someone wrote that Bill G decided against passwords in about 1989. No, 
>> presumably in 1980-1, when he bought what became MS-DOS. With the 8-bit OSs I 
>> was used to, I was *astonished* to discover, when I started having to use MS-
>> DOS, that it had no passwords.
>>     
>
> Yes, it's just shocking that a single-user, single-tasking OS, designed for a
> standalone computer didn't think that passwords were necessary.
>
> Dan
>   


Yes, the data on single user devices is never valuable to miscreants is it.

Roger.
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug