Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!geech.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Why buy an Amiga? Message-ID: <1991Mar7.055454.14416@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 05:54:54 GMT References: <223@usna.NAVY.MIL> <1991Mar07.004452.1738@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: None Lines: 19 In article <1991Mar07.004452.1738@ddsw1.MCS.COM> whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes: >I know this really isn't nice, but... I like IBM's because they break down >more cleanly. Ibm's don't GURU - They "Run-time error at ..." and drop to >dos. That's weird. In the majority of situations I've encountered, they just _lock_ up and do nothing. I remember a situation at a doctor's office once when a secretary was entering some of my info into their billing database. The machine froze up. She spent 30 minutes on the phone with a consultant (I had to wait in the meantime) when they came up with the brilliant idea to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL. >-- >whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM | I don't know, who's at DDSW1? | whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM! >I asked YOU who's at DDSW1! Ok, there's a guy at DDSW1, right? | Right! >Who? | Exactly! | What? | No, he's at lll-winken. | Where? | No, What! | I >don't know! | He's at gargoyle. | Who? | No, he's at DDSW1.MCS.COM!