On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Guide, RISC OS 3 manual and Acorn A4 Pocket Reference). One machine seems to
> suffer from the infamous "slow-down-and-crash" problem. Strangely enough,
> moving the machine up and down a bit seems to get rid of the problem. Go
> figure.
What's happening here is that the little gnome inside the computer that
powers the CPU by running on a treadmill has gotten tired (and in some
cases falls asleep, causing the crash!) By jogging the machine what you
are actually doing is waking up the gnome and getting him back to work.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]
Received on Thu Sep 18 2003 - 18:07:00 BST