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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Feb 1998.
Re: Familiar story

Re: Familiar story

Martin Atkins (zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
: Why is an Amiga crash called a Guru?
: Because....
: .----------------------------------------------------------------------.
: |       Software Failure.    Press Left mouse button to continue.      |
: |                 Guru Meditation #0000000A.06572445                   |
: '----------------------------------------------------------------------'
: Of course after Kickstart 1.3 the programmers lost their sense of humour:
: .----------------------------------------------------------------------.
: |       Software Failure.    Press Left mouse button to continue.      |
: |             Error: 0000000A         Task: 06572445                   |
: '----------------------------------------------------------------------'

Come to think of it, if the exception-handling routines just call Alert()
(instead of jumping to ROM directly) to show the guru, writing a patch to
fix that would be trivial.. Hmm..

:  _______________________________________________________________________
: | AmigaDOS                                                        |oO|[]|
: |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
: |Amiga ROM operating system and libraries                               |
: |                                                                       |
 [snip]
: |                                                                       |
: |                                                                     __|
: |                                                                    ||/|
: '-----------------------------------------------------------------------'mg

You forgot the right-hand blue bar:
   _______________________________________________________________________
  |[]| AmigaShell                                                   |F]|!"|
  |"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""|"|
  |12.Workbench:> cd itz:asc                                            | |
  |12.Work/Iltzu/Asc> ed shellwindow01.asc                              | |
  |                                                                     | |
  |                                                                     | |
  |                                                                     |_|
  |_____________________________________________________________________|/|

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From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
Subject: Re: Familiar story
Date: 1998/02/21
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