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Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Jon Martin
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:17
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jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:

>Probably the same thing that would happen if he's running dos and
>starts seeing things like:

>error in config.sys line 20
>drive d: not found
>not enough conventional memory
>abort, rety, fail?

>or maybe he's running windows- What does he do when he sees the 
>GPFs, "Blue Screens", and giant modal dialog boxes that say:

>        +------------------------+
>        |                        |
>        |     You Are Screwed    |
>        |                        |
>        |      exit program      |
>        |                        |
>        |       +-------+        |
>        |       |       |        |
>        |       |  OK   |        |
>        |       |       |        |
>        |       +-------+        |
>        |                        |
>        +------------------------+

     I just _love_ those.  "GPF.  Unrecoverable error.  Reformat harddrive? 
[OK]"
NO!  It's not OK!  You think they could at least change the button to something
like XV's "bummer" or "too bad".  At least it wouldn't be so aggravating.  Just
venting some anger.
-- 
Serve the Emperor.
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Jon Martin * cs94367@cs.ualberta.ca * http://www.ualberta.ca/~jomartin/
Entering Department of Computing Science at University of Alberta.
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From: cs94367@cs.ualberta.ca (Jon Martin)
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Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: 16 Aug 1995 08:17:21 GMT
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