Is Windows 95 a virus?

  Here's what viruses do: 

    1.Viruses replicate quickly - okay, Win95 does that. 
    2.Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the
       system as they do so - okay, Win95 does that. 
    3.Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Win95
       does that too. 
    4.Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with
       valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Win95 does that, too. 
    5.Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too
       slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with
       Win95, too. 


  Until this point it seemed Win95 is a virus, but we discovered
  fundamental shortcomings: 

  Viruses generally are well-supported by their authors, run on most
  systems of their chosen type, use program code that is fast, elegant,
  compact and efficient, and they tend to become more sophisticated as
  they mature. These are categorical, but consistent, characteristics of
  viruses, which are inconsistent with Windows95. We must therefore
  disqualify it. 

 Win95 is not a virus --- It's a bug. 

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