Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!rlcollins From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Why Amiga Gurus???? Message-ID: <3680.27ad65e7@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 18:47:19 GMT References: <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <156@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> Lines: 47 In article <156@dogmelb.dog.oz.au>, david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes: > In article <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, nnn@po.CWRU.Edu (Nik N. Nik Mahdi) writes: >> gurus when I run certain softwares. I wonder what's wrong with > It is the software ** OR ** the interaction between different pieces > of software. If the software is public domain, its probably bug > ridden! (though I feel that alot of PD programs recently are generally > more robust than what we got in 1986..) If it is commercial, you [Stuff Deleted] > decided I wanted to. ( I feel safe, because one of the first things > I do to PD programs is force them to crash by doing stupid things > to them. If it crashes violently, or locks the system, I usually dont > want to know about it, after all, why should I have to be gentle to > a bug ridden program!:-).) [Stuff Deleted] > It can be your fault for running a PD program in the background. > At a software house I worked at, PD programs were *BANNED* because > bugs introduced by them were considered harmful, and unneccesary. > We had to use commercial editors/compilers/assemblers and utilities > in general. But that's fine, because what you pay for is usually > better than what you get for free.. Are Programs so hard to write for the Amiga that every PD prg is bug ridden? Or is a bad experience with a minute few. I've used many other computer system, with tons of PD/Shareware sw, and I've only had problems on very RARE occasions. Case in point, on my ST, I really only use one or two pieces of commercial software, the rest is PD/Shareware, and have never really had many problems. (I know the chance of crashing is greater in a multi-tasking Environment, especially without hardware protection, but wouldn't the programmers know how to deal with this?) How hard is it really to prg for the Amiga? (Just in case I get a new computer someday!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan 'Gozar' Collins rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET ("UUdecode and Type with vt100 emulation") begin 666 SIG.LZH M'."HT&:?S\'FU@3A<*>"BIY*JFI/?'ULXCLX_MBQ(~?%_/\H9