padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (Padgett Peterson) (08/24/90)
Joe McMahon brings up an excellent point (#3: Bugs). If all
software worked perfectly, every revision level would be 1.0. Having
just gone through a massive installation involving PCs running MS-DOS,
PC-DOS, & Z-DOS in every version from 2.0 to 4.01 (with MANY stops in
between), the likelyhood of an anti-virus program just running on
every platform the first time out are less than nil (Is that a boot
sector infector ? No, it's a Zenith {incidently a 3.0 timestamp is not
in the same place as 3.1 & 3.2 ps: do not rely on VER to tell you
which})- but you would not find out until it was released & then how
do you stop the bad version ? (I can see it now: Anti-Virus ver 39,
guarenteed to kill 512 viruses including all earlier versions of
Anti-Virus) just send in double the upgrade price for ver 38...).
Enough.