Hi Uffe Holst
Maybe thats the problem we've been using the Amiga for so long we forget
to look for the obvious. How many times have you spent hours trying to get
something to work then didn't know what you did when it does work :-)
On 01-Nov-99, Uffe Holst wrote:
> I am very often surprised at the way people act like novices. The Amiga is
> not exactly a new computer, and most Amiga users have had their Amiga for
> more or at least close to a decade. I have had mine since 1988. Why do
> they act like they know nothing about the computer? I could understand it
> if they had moved to Linux a couple of months back and still didn't know
> shit about how it work. But these people have probably had their Amiga for
> five, six, seven or more years.
> The behaviour of memory resident runtime libraries and devices has been
> known since day 1. It really shouldn't come as a surprise to people that
> they have to flush the library/device in question or reboot the computer
> if they for some reason can't flush the library. This is the way it has
> been with the Amiga for years.
> I could understand such questions if they had been using an Amiga for a
> few months, but most of them have probably used their Amiga for years. Why
> do they keep acting like novices?
> And to make it even worse - and this is in my opinion getting close to
> stupidity - why do we see the same bloody questions about libraries EVERY
> time a new pre-release is released - and the same "flush your damn
> libraries" which naturally solve the problems? Are Amiga users today old
> dogs that can't learn new tricks?
> Well, this is my opinion - flame me if you like.
> Uffe Holst
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