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From: Ron Natalie
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 18:21
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 18:21
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I'm not sure about the medical obsession, but the concept of a computer virus was certainly used in Science Fiction stories for well over ten years. The idea of a program that gets loose and takes over all the computers is pretty classic, even if it wasn't called a virus. Certainly the infamous Bell Labs cpp feature is classifiable as a virus and by my estimates must have existed about 12 years ago. -Ron
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