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True to form, I seem to be doing everything except what I should be doing this weekend...namely my assignment.

Had to do some digging in a drawer for a serial number that I had printed years ago and came across a CD...."MacAdvocate II" from Apple, circa 1997. On it is lots of cool files and documents (lots of stuff about CyberDoc, OpenDocs and the Yellow box) but one I did look at was a document about the advantages of Apple. In it, two people talk about why Apple's workgroups servers are better than Unix. Get this...

A Workgroup Server running MacHTTP is much more secure than any UNIX-based workstation, because of the many documented security holes in the UNIX operating system. To provide even minimal security for a UNIX-based workstation often requires expensive or proprietary firewall software, in addition to an experienced UNIX system administrator.

On the other hand, a Workgroup Server connected to the Internet is not subject to unauthorized access (a big UNIX security problem). Furthermore, MacHTTP does not allow random access to the entire document tree. Only those files and documents that you want to publicize are available to the Internet community.

Oh how times have changed!

Phil