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From: lou@vaxsc
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Subject: Re: Why buy an Amiga?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 17:01:24 GMT
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Sorry, this isnt amiga related, but it had to be said...

In article <1991Mar07.004452.1738@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, Ben Feen
<whos@ddsw1.mcs.com> 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.  

Hello?
You haven't used dos for very long have you?  Have you never had the infamous

	STACK OVERFLOW, SYSTEM HALTED

error?  Or even better yet

	SYSTEM ERROR, SYSTEM HALTED

Gee thanks MicroSoft.  No offending address, no stack dump, nothing.  Try
debugging this garbage!

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