Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!tektronix!percival!billc From: billc@percival.UUCP (William J. Coldwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apple //GS, words from their world Message-ID: <1477@percival.UUCP> Date: 20 Mar 89 12:40:55 GMT References: <1981NU140487@NDSUVM1> <225@nlgvax.UUCP> Reply-To: billc@percival.UUCP (William J. Coldwell) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 42 In article bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) writes: > >> GURUs are indeed bad practice. Moreover, they are bad marketing. The >> Mac and Atari ST display nice cute not offensive bombs. You hardly >> notice them on the screen. The reaction (also mine) when a Mac >> crashes is "oh the machine crashed", but when my Amiga crashes "OH >> MY AMIGA CRASHED". > >Bullshit; I get just as pissed when a machine shows "cute little >bombs." When a computer gets to this point, slick visual design is >pretty irrelevant. How is the phrase "guru meditation" offensive, anyway? > >-Miles I have to agree with Miles on this one - ever have a bomb tell you what was the general cause of the problem? What about what address that the error occured at? Sure, you can count: THis little bomb means blah, this little bomb means that blah2 happened.. and so on ad nauseum... I'm not idolizing the Amiga's crashing, in fact I hate the fact that it "crashes" at all (that's why I use GOMF). I would prefer that the OS kill the process, deallocate it's memory (as well as it can), and restore the rest of the system. (hey, maybe in 1.4! Nah, then people would not have anything complain about (especially J. Pournelle... ;-) - BYTE wouldn't be the same.) Since I can;t have an "intelligent" process elimination, I'll settle with nice green recoverable alerts instead (for everything!) ;-) Bill -- William J. Coldwell - Amiga Attitude Adjuster CRYOGENIC SOFTWARE - 3647 W 97th #21B - Denver, CO 80030 - (303) 465-1330 "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, ...tektronix!reed!percival!billc are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful." \sequent!blowpig/