🚀 go-pugleaf

in article <8703121153.AA09496@ingres.Berkeley.EDU>, hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) says:
> 
> It's bad karma to start religious wars. Also, the ST is a good enough
> machine that it hurts more than helps for people to take cheap shots like
> this rather than simply pointing out what you like about the ST. It sounds
> petty.

> But what are you talking about? I've never heard of anything like
> this. Did you find a copy of the boot directions with a dumb typo
> or something?

  Well, I'm not trying to start a religious war at all--just pointing out
that there are problems with every machine.  Anyway, here's the story.

  I was at Jerry Pournelle's house, and he had a piece of Amiga software
that he wanted to show me, told me it looked really great.  "Fine", says
I, "let's see it.".

  Take out disc, and follow instructions on disc as to how to boot.
No go.  "Guru mediation error".

  Ok, fine.  Get out the manual.  Try _those_ booting instructions.  (THey
turn out to be slightly different).  Again, no go.

  Ok, let's just try a standard Amiga boot, and then...

  Well, after about 20 minutes of this, we finally gave up.  the silly thing
simply would _not_ boot.  So we left it alone with the disc in the drive, and
went over to the ST.  About 20 minutes after _that_, I happened to look
back at the Amiga, and--you guessed it--the program had booted itself.

  I've had a couple more experiences like this, and they lead me to believe
that it must be me--the Amiga and I just don't get along... <grin>

--alex @ Atari

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