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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: OS features
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 22:54:19 GMT
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- Chris Gray (cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA) wrote:
- : > >gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine) wrote:
- : >
- : > >How many Amiga users can say the Same... I get a crash a day at the
- : > >best on my A4000/40 WB 3.1...
- :
- : You must be running something "unfriendly" to do that. This machine (one
- : of the original Commodore A4000T's) dies once every few months on its own.
- : When I do something dumb in programming it dies more often, and I always
- : reboot after running AMosaic, or a game/etc. from the net, but the main
- : stuff (shells, AmigaUUCP stuff, editor, compiler, AmiTCP/IP, etc.) all
- : seem pretty stable. I also run Enforcer all the time, and don't often
- : get hits. (Occasional ones from Getty, unfortunately - I think line
- : noise sometimes overflows a buffer in it.)
-
- Rebooting after running bad software to avoid a crash is almost as bad
- as a real crash IMO... Even if you stick to the most stable software,
- you're still going to get crashes. Almost all software has bugs of some
- kind (including Workbench), and if you run just about any Amiga program
- frequently enough it will crash. I can't think of any "major" application
- I own that hasn't at one time or another caused a crash on me. My 4000/030
- WB3.0 is on 24 hours a day, and I probably get 2 or 3 crashes a day,
- sometimes more. Frankly, I think that people who claim that their Amigas
- hardly ever crash must not be using them to do a whole lot...
-
- Amigas crash way too often. It is not a myth.
-
- Reg Martin
-