Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ames.arc.nasa.gov!mike From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apple //GS, words from their world Message-ID: <23053@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 25 Mar 89 09:10:40 GMT References: <1981NU140487@NDSUVM1> <225@nlgvax.UUCP> <1477@percival.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA - Ames Research Center Lines: 36 In article <1477@percival.UUCP> billc@percival.UUCP (William J. Coldwell) writes: >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 > We discussed the GURU problem some time back. The conclusion was that the GURU should be rephrased "Application Error", since most crashes are due to program bugs. Also, keep in mind that the multitasking environment is somewhat foreign to many programmers and requires alot of care in resource managment. Originally, there was the intent to install some limited recovery code to help the "Software Error" problems but apparently that was too involved for the time the guys had and it was left out. mike ("just call me Crash") *** mike (cerbral GURU, insert M&Ms to restart) smithwick*** "Oh, I'm just a NOP in the instruction set of life, oh, ohhhh, hmmmmm" [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]