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guru meditation
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n. Amiga equivalent of panic in Unix (sometimes just called a guru or guru
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event ). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form GURU
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MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY may appear, indicating what the problem was.
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An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. Sometimes a guru event
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must be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch. This term is (no surprise) an
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in-joke from the earliest days of the Amiga. An earlier product of the Amiga
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corporation was a device called a Joyboard which was basically a plastic
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board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game
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cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype
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OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would calm down by
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concentrating on a solution while sitting cross-legged on a Joyboard trying
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to keep the board in balance. This position resembled that of a meditating
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guru. Sadly, the joke was removed fairly early on (but there's a well-known
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patch to restore it in more recent versions).
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