Firewall vs entry in Hosts file ????
What is the difference (that is better) between having an entry in the "hosts" file, or a "rule" in a firewall application when trying to block inbound traffic from a known website or company.
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agesilaus wrote:
We had Windows 2 on a 286 PC with 386 KB of RAM for which we paid over a hundred bucks for the extra 128 KB. That is 41,450,777th as much RAM as in the system I'm typing this on. That was an upgrade from our Commode'd Or 64. Cutting edge at the time. I don't know if Window 1 was ever seen in the wild. We used Word not World for Windows which was not developed at the time. Lotus 123 and a db program from Borland I don't recall the name. I wrote software on their Turbo Pascal.
ah ... probably dBase III or IV? Ashton-Tate bought Vultan, renamed it to dBase. Then Borland bought Ashton-Tate and dBase III and then IV took off. I was working with Oracle back in the dark ages on DEC VMS and using CP/M, OS/2, PC-MOS, Windows 3.1 on the PC and MacOS on Macs.
We bought a 1 MB RAM expansion board for a Compaq 286 that was $1000 iirc - was a full height, full length board with both sides fully covered with memory chips.
Yeah, I used Turbo Pascal back in the day, too.
