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From: tron1@xanadu.UUCP (Kenneth Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can Amiga reach for the Sun?
Summary: Amiga stability
	 Gomf & Guru's
Message-ID: <20@xanadu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 02:30:45 GMT
References: <6526@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <41435@linus.UUCP>
Organization: Xanadu, Belleville NJ
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In article <41435@linus.UUCP>, sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
> 
> 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?
> > 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.

	It is a definate problem of the AMiga's that the OS is not stable enough. Lets facee it. I love my Amiga, and between GOMF 2.2 and WB1.3 things
HAVE gotten better. But I still get locked up once a session or so. That is 
un-acceptable. 

	I Think that with a 68020 board in it, the AMIGA can very well compete
with the likes of SUn and others. But it needs certain things.....

	1) A BIG SCREEN - HI-RES (1024x1024) display
	2) Better color resolution... (640x400x>4096<)
	3) STABILITY
	4) see item 3

	With the above options, the thing to do would be a 68020 UNIX BRIDGE-
BOARD. LET the 68020 run UNIX (With X-windows) in an AMIGA window. Like when
someone I know runs WINDOWS on the PC-Bridgeboard. Or the otehr way around.

	All I know is, I have to reboot my Amiga once a night. I havent had to re-boot this UNIX box for WEEKS!

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