[comp.sys.amiga] Why does the Amiga GURU when you do this?

murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy) (03/24/90)

Yesterday, I was showing my mother-in-law the difference between active
windows and non-active windows on me Amiga 2000.  To illustrate, I fired
up two shells and typed as fast a gibberish line as I could i.e. ";lkjasdf..."
The crazy part of it is that after about 25-30 characters, Amy decides to 
up and reboot.  I am running Workbench 1.3 with 1.2ROMS, newshell, and
NEWCON:.  After rebooting, I tried it again and still again.  Each time
I was able to crash the machine.  

For you adventurous types, start workbench, open a shell and then type
gibberish as fast as possible.  Do you crash?  Why is this crashing?
Am I overrunning some input buffer for character keystrokes?  How do
I fix it?  DONT tell me "don't do what you did," that is not an answer.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bill Murphy                          murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu
Enjoying my Amiga 2000, but holding out for a real computer: The Amiga 3000!!