Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: help --> how to preve Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 91 23:23:48 GMT References: <20.27877C8B@halluc.FIDONET.ORG> Lines: 23 > This was written by somebody, but the attribution got lost in someone's editor: >-> So in return, here's _my_ own beefs : First, the unspeakable >-> horror of today's CS majors who rely on hardware to catch their >-> mistakes. Second, the unrealistic expectation that inexpensive >-> personal computers should have Yeah? Well one of _my_ own beefs is the expectation that all users of the Amiga should have to play beta-tester for software to see if it will guru thier machine under any set of circumstances (low memory, other programs grabbing resources, etc.) while still trying to get important work done. It's easy to say "don't use use it if it guru's your machine", but quite another to discover an error path nobody tested in an editor in the middle of an hour long compile, resulting in a guru, followed by the old backup, format, and restore. We can't expect *every* user to test all the software we write, and neither are we perfect programmers. An MMU and a robust file system are good insurance policies against losing work. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |