saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (02/01/91)
For those lucky people who didn't try to participate in Sam Tramiel's real
time conference on Genie on 1/30/91: Genie kept crashing and logging people
off. The question delivery mechanism broke. It was a mess. Sam took it
*relatively* well (as did about half of the rest of us). Anyway, someone asked
how he felt at being the subject of so much attention that it broke a major
on-line service. First he said that they should get better software. Then
that they should get a better computer......like a TT.
For reference: I think Genie runs on a few connected Amdahls.
There was a little news, but nothing that would surprise regular readers of
c.s.a.st.
Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.usrcarter@isis.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) (02/06/91)
Last time I was on during a Tramiel GEnie conference, was when ATARI France decided to have a bigtime fire. And all this happened when it was -my- turn to ask a question... I had to type it in three times (yeah, I should have buffered it, but didn't want to ask the same question as someone else...) before it came out all muddled and with no one caring by then... Yikes... -- Ron Carter | rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu rcarter GEnie 70707.3047 CIS Director | Center for the Study of Creative Intelligence Denver, CO | Knowledge is power. Knowledge to the people. Just say know.