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From: disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Recoverable GURU (was Re: IEEE libraries)
Message-ID: <2971@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 16:46:51 GMT
References: <12177@oberon.USC.EDU>
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From article <12177@oberon.USC.EDU>, by papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa):
> 
> While the "Guru Meditation" might have HAD some Zen meaning to the original
> Amiga Developers/Designers, it clearly gives the End User and potential 
> purchaser of the Amiga a pretty sloppy image.  You see, if you are running
Agreed, to a certain extent.  I think it was cute and clever in its day,
but I feel it should be shed so that the Amiga ceases to be the butt of
Atari's and Apple's jokes.  Hope I haven't offended any of the Amiga
originals, I approve of the fact that the OS attempts to tell me what
has gone wrong.

> PC DOS and the machine crashes, you know which program did it.  On the Amiga,
Gotta disagree here.  I don't know how many times I've had to
systematically remove TSR's until I found what was causing me to lock
up.  Now I know that if you use TSR's you takes your chances, but after
falling in love with the nature of the Amiga,  I have to take my
"multitasking" any way I can get it.  I'd much rather be given *some*
indication of what went wrong (even if it is via an obnoxious guru
meditation alert) than have the machine lock tight and give me no
clue.    Oops!  Sorry I don't really mean to argue with you about Pee
Seas.  I just don't think that PC-DOS's method of just giving up is any
better than the guru meditations.

> out of the question.  On the other hand, there are a few things (like the
> recoverable library closing) that should not entail great changes and still
> have a considerable effect on the "image" of the Amiga as a computer one can
> "rely on".
I fully agree here.





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