Re: Wow - M$ Fixes Everything - Blue Screen-of-Death Replaced by BLACK Screen-of-Death

On 7/1/25 9:13 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-07-01, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
 

On 7/1/25 7:45 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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On 2025-06-29, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
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     Amiga "Guru Meditation" messages with the huge
     number following were fun  :-)
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     Got so many with my A-1000 that I dumped the box.

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I dumped the poorly-written software that caused them.

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    Couldn't find replacements soon enough ...
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    The underlying OS seems to have been released
    a little before it was ripe.

 If anything, it's the hardware that wasn't ripe
(i.e. no memory protection).  As for software being
released prematurely, that's been going on for far
longer than that.  All too many times we've had our
noses rubbed in the basic marketing fact that it's
better to be first than best.

   There IS some truth in that !
   Recently saw a mini-doc about the copier wars.
   Xerox came out with its 914. The thing actually
   CAUGHT FIRE at its public debut. They still got
   about 9000 orders ! Each machine sold came with
   it's own "Scorch Suppressor" - ie FIRE EXTINGUISHER -
   until they had time to re-design the bad bits  :-)
   IBM had totally ignored that market and then had to
   play catch-up ... but Xerox was already way ahead
   of the game. It's why 'Xerox' and 'photo-copy' are
   still interchangeable terms.
   The 'modern PC' was born at a Xerox center of
   course ... GUIs, mice, cheap networks. However
   they never got enough funding - and foolishly
   let Steve Jobs check out their stuff when they'd
   done some other deal with him. Jobs only kinda
   sorta maybe 'stole' it all.