Re: Why Amiga Gurus????

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From: Matt Ranney
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 00:24

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david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>Unix boxes 'segmentation fault' or 'core dump' or sometimes have
>to reboot!, Macinsloshes give 'System Error'. IBM pc's simply lock,

Why can't Amiga's handle failed tasks like the Unix OS can?  I'd be perfectly
happy to have my computer tell me that a task failed, and all it's allocated
resources had been returned.  I'm not an OS programmer, so I don't know why
this would cause a problem, or how hard it would be, so could someone answer 
this?  

I had my Amiga for 45 minutes, and had GURU'ed it just by opening messing
with things on the Workbench 1.3 and Extras disk.  These are commercial
programs, and I wasn't really doing anything out of the ordinary.

--
Matt Ranney
t22918@ursa.calvin.edu

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