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From: billc@percival.UUCP (William Coldwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Negative Open Counts (was Re: IEEE libraries)
Message-ID: <1369@percival.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 06:09:21 GMT
References: <6988@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: billc@percival.UUCP (William Coldwell)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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In article <6988@gryphon.CTS.COM> bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett) writes:
>My concern and 2 cents about GURUing, as an end user point of view and not
>developer/programmer would be that instead of staring at a meaningless
>flashing number on the screen, the machine could just go into a warm boot and
[stuff deleted]
>
>Bill
>
>UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!bilbo

Actually, how about when the Amiga barfs, to tell which task is barfing, and
allow the user to terminate the task and flush the resources and libraries
(pending a fix to the -# usecount)?  I think that this would be more of a
visual help to the user rather than shutting the whole system down.  GOMF
seems to do a pretty decent job of remeding the situation... how about a
real fix?  I mean, hell if the operating system is going to be revamped,
why not handle a stray task a little bit better?

 Bill


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