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

Re: Familiar story



.-------- Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> wrote...
| 
| Umm.. I think I do, and I fully agree, but I always thought only Amigas
| had the habit of showing those colorful display effects when a crash
| trashed the copper lists. Never knew Windows boxes did that too. ;-)
| 
'-----------------------------


Why is an Amiga crash called a Guru?

Because....
.----------------------------------------------------------------------.
|       Software Failure.    Press Left mouse button to continue.      |
|                 Guru Meditation #0000000A.06572445                   |
'----------------------------------------------------------------------'
<Best Viewed in Topaz/Topaz New>


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                   |
'----------------------------------------------------------------------'

But the name 'guru' stuck...

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

Amiga Workbench/DOS/Kickstart - The way operating systems should all be
done...

I think that the Amiga`s owners should sell a PC version of the Amiga`s
OS...

512K ROM stuff
720K Floppy with system software

1232K, thats 1.2meg!

and it runs in 1MB RAM!

obv the ROM bits would have to be HDD based rather than ROM based.

It doesn`t try to do anything for you, yet it is surprisingly easy to
use...
It doesn`t take over your HDD, yet it manages to do almost everything
Windows does...


WORKBENCH FOR PC!!!!!

(Hmm - I got a bit carried away I think, slightly off topic :) )

 _________________________________________________________
| Amiga Workbench   102625 Grapics mem, 0 other mem     |o|
'---------------------------------------------------------'
  .---.
  ||_||
  |.-.|
  '---'
Workbench3
           ___________________________
          |o|                     |o|o|
          |---------------------------|
          | .---.   .---.             |
          | '---'   '---'             |
          | System  Tools            /|
          '---------------------------'



------------------------------------------------------------ mga

And finally... the Amiga has the best font for ASCII art...
                                                  Topaz!

 _______   ___    ____        ______
|__   __| / _ \  | o  \  /\  /___  /   IS GOOD!
   | |   | |_| | |  __/ /  \    / /___ IS NICE!
   |_|    \___/  |_|   /_/\_\  /_____/

Get Topaz New for Windows from me at mart.atkins @ bigfoot.com




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. __| |__ http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ascii.htm
.          WHAT ASCIIs DO YOU WANT MESSED UP TODAY?

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Subject: Re: Familiar story
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