Jian Huang at University of Tennessee; CS361 Operating System and Systems Programming

Michael Peirce - ComputerWorld 1996

Microsoft laying off 120 employees at its Floppy Disk Manufacturing Plant helps support the prediction that CD-ROMs are taking over for Floppy Disks.
30% of retail software sales were CD-ROM in 1995, jumped to 60% in 1996.
CD-ROMs have a faster install rate, and since they are read-only users can<92>t put viruses on them.
CD-ROMs were cheaper to make, and thus prices for them were also cheaper to the user.

Various ads throughout the paper advertising companies that use year 2000 compatible equipment.

An alternative to the Post Office Protacol3 (POP3) which works best for a single machine.
Allows a user to Access mail from multiple computers, download it to a client or just parts of the message. This allowed for a server to store the main copy. $159-199

University of Utah students work to combine OpenDoc and JavaBeans to create an updatable application for doctors.
This allowed physician assistants to see patients and diagnose them, thus increasing the number of people that could be seen.
Works by having doctor or nurse put the patient<92>s symptoms into the computer and it would return recommendations of which tests to run and other symptoms to watch out for.

The name of this software is pronounced <93>no more blanket-blank viruses<94> and was created by the RG Software
This program works by installing itself as the first line in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, so it executes before any other code is loaded. At boot-up, it compares the boot-up record with a previous snapshot and notes any changes. It deletes itself from memory after it runs.
Used to find boot-sector viruses.
It runs at boot time so the user doesn<92>t have to worry about doing it and it doesn<92>t rely upon looking for a unique signature left by a virus so it doesn<92>t need to be updated.
Doesn<92>t catch file-infector or macro viruses so regular scans still need to be done.

The problem with Java is that it is slow to run and doesn<92>t work with most web browsers.
Microsoft and Netscape race to make web browser plug-ins for the java virtual machine to be able to run with the browser at a fast rate.