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From: MJB@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amiga or PC-AT ?
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Date: 6 Aug 88 08:43:12 GMT
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In response to Mr. Brickman's allegations regarding the Amiga's tendency to
crash, I offer the following: I run a 2.5meg A1000. I leave it on 24hrs a day,
running UEdit ("text processor") on its own screen, the Workbench screen with
CLI (DOS prompt command line interface and DU-VI ( two panel dir utility 
similiar to Norton Commander), plus Amic 56a telcomm program also running on
its own screen. I frequently go months without crashing or hanging.  I believe
that I'm at about 6 weeks on this run. I usually don't have a problem unless
I start screwing around programming in "C" (I'm a novice programmer) or get
some new pd program that's not quite upto snuff. Of those programs I mentioned
above, only the Workbench and CLI are commercial (CBM) programs (come with).
Once again, I leave these programs running at the same time, all the time,
ready at my beck and call -- to me that's what it's all about.
P.S. My Toshiba 1100+, running DOS 3.2, and "standard" DOS programs (Sidekick,
Tornado Notes, etc.) hung on me 3 times today.
                          - Martin Brown -