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Article #9803Re: Recoverable GURU (was Re: IEEE libraries)
From: Gary Heffelfinger
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1988 16:46
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1988 16:46
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From article <12177@oberon.USC.EDU>, by papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa):
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> While the "Guru Meditation" might have HAD some Zen meaning to the original
> Amiga Developers/Designers, it clearly gives the End User and potential
> purchaser of the Amiga a pretty sloppy image. You see, if you are running
Agreed, to a certain extent. I think it was cute and clever in its day,
but I feel it should be shed so that the Amiga ceases to be the butt of
Atari's and Apple's jokes. Hope I haven't offended any of the Amiga
originals, I approve of the fact that the OS attempts to tell me what
has gone wrong.
> PC DOS and the machine crashes, you know which program did it. On the Amiga,
Gotta disagree here. I don't know how many times I've had to
systematically remove TSR's until I found what was causing me to lock
up. Now I know that if you use TSR's you takes your chances, but after
falling in love with the nature of the Amiga, I have to take my
"multitasking" any way I can get it. I'd much rather be given *some*
indication of what went wrong (even if it is via an obnoxious guru
meditation alert) than have the machine lock tight and give me no
clue. Oops! Sorry I don't really mean to argue with you about Pee
Seas. I just don't think that PC-DOS's method of just giving up is any
better than the guru meditations.
> out of the question. On the other hand, there are a few things (like the
> recoverable library closing) that should not entail great changes and still
> have a considerable effect on the "image" of the Amiga as a computer one can
> "rely on".
I fully agree here.
--
Gary Heffelfinger --- Employed by, but not the mouthpiece of
Clemson University.
---=== Amiga. The computer for the best of us. ===---
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