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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: guru errors, bombs, lockups
Message-ID: <11039@well.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 10:34:01 GMT
References: <1981NU140487@NDSUVM1> <MY8gely00Uka04iG8m@andrew.cmu.edu> <3650@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <3650@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>The phrase "guru meditation" is offensive because it is arcane and, well,
>guru-ish.  I would prefer something like "System Crashed."

	Wrong.  "System Crashed" implies that the OS just died.  People will
then be inclined to blame the OS (read: Commodore) for being unreliable.
"Application Failed" would be better.

>and a little help 
>beyond the guru number (GOMF sort of does this), saying "The program that 
>caused the crashed was probably xxx" and an explanation of what went wrong, 
>to the degree possible, like "memory free list was corrupted," etc.
>
	Nice, but there's no room in the ROM for it.

>Unfortunately, Commodore's apparently not going to do any sort of MMU version 
>of AmigaDOS, [ ... ]

	Based on the rumblings I've seen on BIX, you may be pleasantly
surprised.

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