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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What the sales of Mac II's mean
Message-ID: <8388@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 89 16:01:06 GMT
References: <1989Nov2.024147.15966@welch.jhu.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <1989Nov2.024147.15966@welch.jhu.edu>, mjr@welch.jhu.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) says:

> 	I love my MacII. I use it to hold my coffee machine.

> 	After about the 200th "Sorry a system error has occurred" I reassigned
> it to its current duties.

> 	Of course, my Amiga is heading in the same direction - I am sick of
> braindead GURUs. 

I suppose lots of it depends on what you're doing with either machine.  Our
lab Mac IIc crashes far more often, with the one application it runs, than
my office Amiga, which is running tons of different stuff all the time
(even stuff I write myself, which is really tempting fate :-).  The
application on the lab machine is rather new, and I'd certainly expect these 
crashes to be much less frequent in the next release of that software.  
Despite the crashes, it's doing useful work. 

Now, my machine at home crashes constantly, but I'm actually writing the
software there and causing the crashes, so that's to be expected under any
OS without hardware memory protection.  But I'd rather write for the Amiga
OS than UNIX anyway.

> --mjr();
-- 
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