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...materialized last December on terminals connected to one of IBM's research computer networks. Soon after came news that some desktop computers at Hebrew University in Israel were growing more and more lethargic, as if a hidden organism were sapping their strength. Then, one day last month, thousands of Macintosh users were greeted with an unexpected "message of peace" from the publisher of a Canadian computer magazine, which flashed briefly on their screens and disappeared without a trace...
...light this year have been relatively benign, like the strain currently making the rounds of the public computer networks that causes infected machines equipped with voice synthesizers to intone the words "Don't panic." But the epidemic is giving the computer industry a chill. The virus that struck Macintosh owners last month was apparently spread through a program called FreeHand which is published by Seattle-based Aldus Corp. FreeHand is the first commercial software product known to have been a virus carrier. The bug could just as easily have instructed its host computers to erase their storage disks. Several companies...
...best-known figures in the industry against each other: John Sculley, 49, president of Apple; and Bill Gates, 32, chairman of Microsoft. It also seems calculated to derail the plans of IBM to endow its computer line with the "user friendly" features pioneered by Apple's popular Macintosh model...
...Microsoft all express confidence that they are not in violation of Apple's copyrights. Microsoft's Gates is especially puzzled: in 1985 he and Sculley signed a confidential agreement, made public last week, that gave Microsoft a "nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, nontransferable license" to use parts of the Macintosh display in an earlier version of Windows. Apple argues that the latest version of Windows is too Mac-like and thus violates the agreement. But when Gates spoke to Sculley two days before the suit was filed, the Apple chairman made no mention of the problem...
...That's How They Do It: Ever wonder how Cornell hockey fans get so crazy? Some self-appointed student entrepreneurs use a Macintosh laserprinter to help coach the crowd on specific cheers, how to find the best chickens, fish, tennis and so forth. "Section D Tonight," is one of the most widely-read publications on campus...