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From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
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Subject: Re: REJOICE, New bombs in 6.0.7
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Date: 23 Oct 90 20:52:27 GMT
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In article <15565@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) writes:
>
>The new system release (6.0.7) now uses phrases when it bombs
>instead of obscure numbers.
>
>You will be greeted with things like "Bus Error" and "Address Error"
>but nevermore will you see "ID = 31"

Yeah, but unfortunately they made a few assumptions. For example 
the "Line 1111 Trap error" is reported as "Co-processor not installed".
A few people are getting rather confused about this. I personally don't
see that it makes much difference.  If the program crashes, then it crashes.
There isn't much you can do about it.  And knowing that Word crashed
losing several hour of work because of a "Bus Error" isn't any more
comforting than knowing it crashed because of an ID=31 (or whatever).

>
>WiLLiam Moss

Tom
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