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Article #1116Re: Dream OS = Linux
From: Jon Martin
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:17
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!assn101.cs.ualberta.ca!cs94367 From: cs94367@cs.ualberta.ca (Jon Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux Date: 16 Aug 1995 08:17:21 GMT Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <40s9ih$jje@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz> <40l9d9$8i1@news.ios.com> <40lplj$qi5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <40ne7k$861@tbd120.tbd.ford.com> <40qm5l$hip@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: assn101.cs.ualberta.ca Originator: cs94367@assn101.cs.ualberta.ca