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...reason Sun's computers have been so popular is that they use an industrial-strength operating system called Unix. First developed by AT&T, . Unix enables computers to do several jobs at once and allows a network of machines to share information and computing power. While Unix systems are generally too complex for casual users to operate, Sun's newer models are designed to be friendlier to novices. The SPARCstation 1 begins to bridge the gap between workstations and personal computers...
...practical for many other uses, such as financial trading and desktop publishing. Says Mark Tolliver, workstation marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard: "When people see all the whizzy stuff these machines can do, they want to try them out." Most workstations now use a standardized internal operating system known as Unix (which explains why the trade show is called UniForum). The increasing prevalence of Unix in the computer industry makes it easier for workstations made by different manufacturers to communicate with one another and with larger machines...
Experts believed that the program was designed to quietly inject itself into every machine running a version of the popular operating system Unix and remain there dormantly, not causing any damage...
While Friedell praised Morris' ability, headded that the UNIX system, which Morrispenetrated, was known to have dozens of seriousloopholes which could be used by an experiencedhacker...
Morris got much of his experience in computersat Bell Labs, where his father worked beforejoining the National Security Agency as aspecialist in computer security. While at Bell,colleagues say, he met Dennis Ritchie, one of theoriginal developers of the UNIX system. Harvardprogrammers learned of the younger Morris throughRitchie who told Harvard contacts to watch for thefreshman...