Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!ursa!t22918 From: t22918@ursa (Matt Ranney ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Why Amiga Gurus???? Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 91 00:24:28 GMT References: <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <156@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 18 david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes: >Unix boxes 'segmentation fault' or 'core dump' or sometimes have >to reboot!, Macinsloshes give 'System Error'. IBM pc's simply lock, Why can't Amiga's handle failed tasks like the Unix OS can? I'd be perfectly happy to have my computer tell me that a task failed, and all it's allocated resources had been returned. I'm not an OS programmer, so I don't know why this would cause a problem, or how hard it would be, so could someone answer this? I had my Amiga for 45 minutes, and had GURU'ed it just by opening messing with things on the Workbench 1.3 and Extras disk. These are commercial programs, and I wasn't really doing anything out of the ordinary. -- Matt Ranney t22918@ursa.calvin.edu