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To: RegulatorCountry

I will admit that is pretty funny. And I do wonder if the BSOD represented by the blue pane was an inside joke from someone @ Microsoft.


24 posted on 11/15/2010 11:09:24 AM PST by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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To: Blue Highway

When the Amiga had an OS failure, it shifted the screen down, and displayed a black box with a red border, and in bright red letters: “Guru Meditation Error: xxxxx”.

This was an inside joke - Amiga Corp., in trying to raise funds for the development of the Amiga computer, designed and manufactured arcade game joysticks. One of their designs was a platform on which you stood, and shifted your weight to control the game. This was designed for skiing games, etc., but their own in-house game was called “Guru Meditation”, in which you sat on the platform and the less you moved, the higher your score.


36 posted on 11/16/2010 1:27:46 PM PST by jdege
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