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- From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.142819.9665@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Summary: Requester and guru differnces
- Keywords: coredump, guru
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- Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
- References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov12.085832.7382@ifi.unizh.ch> <1953@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:28:19 GMT
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- In article <1953@lysator.liu.se> marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- >matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
- >>In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >>>Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX?
- >>Because it gives you a nice guru telling you the Why and the Where
- >
- >>>Why do they instead crash messily and reset?
- >>Because its not guarantied that your data is safe.
- >
- >Wouldn't you like the computer to continue working and then let the user
- >decide if he/she wants to reset?
-
- Thats the suspend requester. Its your choise to suspend or reset.
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- bye
- Matija
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