Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!pleiades!dbrmelb!bruce!labtam!eyrie!guru!nikolai From: nikolai@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (nikolai kingsley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Why Amiga Gurus???? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 07:08:16 GMT References: <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: The Guru Meditation BBS Lines: 20 > it to Guru? Why doesn't it happen to other computer systems, like > IBM or Macintosh (sometimes I got "System Error" on Mac, is it > the same as the "Guru Meditation" on Amiga?). > Thus, can someone explain this to me. Why the software developer > (if it is their fault!) didn't do anything to avoid this? > Thanks in advance. > > NIK well, when an IBM goes, the system is so dumb that it can't tell you. you are lucky if you can even tell that it has gone, it might just be slow! and yes, the AMiga Gurus are similar to the macintosh `bombs' and the Atari Chrrybombs... up to about 00000012, at least. it is not your fault. if some idiot tells the 68000 to access an instruction at an odd memory location ( a no-no, cos they are all supposed to be on word boundaries!) it go GURU GURU. if some moron say to it `here, divide this number by zero, it also Goes To India to see the Guru. you see, the 68000 is a nice chip, but it can't do the impossible... like figure out why people like Word Perfect. nikolai alekseivitch Kingsley patron saint of the caps lock key