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Article #7847Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 14:18
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 14:18
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In article <611@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > Those are some rather flip answers to what, IMHO, is the Amiga's greatest > shortcoming: any program can crash the whole system quite easily. To my mind, > this is unacceptable in a multitasking machine. But the same is true for the multitasking offerings from Apple, IBM, and other PC manufacturers. Rather than CBM having "got away with it up til now", it's gotten an undeserved bad reputation. Now that other PC manufacturers are starting to offer multitasking without protected memory perhaps that will change. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru Keywords: Flip answers are no help Message-ID: <7462@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 Jan 91 14:18:52 GMT References: <611@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 13