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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Multitasking (Amiga Reliability)
Message-ID: <650@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 15:34:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 15:34:06 1986
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> (line eater giveaway)
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> I don't think the Amiga OS qualifies as "solid". Recently, a friend of mine
> spent a couple of hours on an Amiga trying to prove to me how great it was.
> During that time, he ran various demos, games, and graphics programs (many
> of them being sold commercially), and the Amiga crashed consistently.
>
> This was using version 1.2 of Intuition for the first hour, and then going
> back to 1.1 for the second hour. With either version of the OS, the Amiga
> crashed so often that my friend was rather embaressed.
>
> Maybe you use an unreleased version of Intuition???
>
> Andrew Shebanow

Version 1.2 has just been finalized, and is not yet released.  Anything
running under such beta software may run into bugs of any kind.  While
there certainly are commercial programs that crash the Amiga at times, the
large majority of the ones I've seen don't do this.  Several of the games
out there "take over" the machine, requiring a warm reboot to get back
to the OS.  There are also quite a few demo programs that date back to
the early days of the machine that were never completely brought up to
date.  Your friend is likely to have a number of these if he's got 1.2,
either because he's a recognized beta tester who's kept his old demos
or because he's got bootleg copies of these demos along with bootleg
copies of 1.2.  I repeat that I've run my office Amiga with various
programs, including lots of beta software, for weeks at a time without
a single crash.  But then, I know what it is I'm running.

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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

        "I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and
         for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
                                                        -Gotama Buddha

        These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too.
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