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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can Amiga reach for the Sun?
Message-ID: <41435@linus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 00:56:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu's message of 28 Oct 88 20:25:20 GMT


In article <6526@xanth.cs.odu.edu> manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes) writes:

> Changes in the software, Yep, as a programmer, I love the guru mediation
> alerts and completey understand them.  However, it is coarse and introduces
> a feeling of uncertainty in the operation of the machine.  A pretty screen
> would be much nicer, a screen that looks nice, but says what went wrong in
> english text.  If I can decode a number, why can't the computer?

If Hypertek/Silicon Springs can make a GOMF 3.0, why can't Commodore?
Better yet, maybe they could buy the rights to GOMF 3.0 and bundle it
with every new Amiga sold.  Ever since I got GOMF (v2.2), the ability
to smoothly recover from many "Error--Task held" messages without
rebooting has really added to the feeling of solidity of the operating
system (and made multitasking much more usable).  It's not as good as
full resource tracking, but it really helps.

> I did see an excellent suggestion by someone from CATS talking about 
> software failure messages.  He said something to the fact that it should
> be called "Application failure", Amen!  Amen!  Folks must be completely
> confident in the operation of the operating system.

I'd rather have a GOMF capability supported by Commodore, not a
renaming of the current alert.


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