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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>guru meditation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="guru.html" title="guru"/><link rel="next" href="gweep.html" title="gweep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">guru meditation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="guru.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gweep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="guru-meditation"/><dt xmlns="" id="guru-meditation"><b>guru meditation</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Amiga equivalent of <span class="firstterm">panic</span> in
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Unix (sometimes just called a <span class="firstterm">guru</span> or
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<span class="firstterm">guru event</span>). When the system
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crashes, a cryptic message of the form “<span class="quote">GURU MEDITATION
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#XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY</span>” may appear, indicating what the problem was. An
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Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. Sometimes a
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<a href="guru.html"><i class="glossterm">guru</i></a> event must be followed by a
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<a href="../V/Vulcan-nerve-pinch.html"><i class="glossterm">Vulcan nerve pinch</i></a>.</p><p>This term is (no surprise) an in-joke from the earliest days of the
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Amiga. An earlier product of the Amiga corporation was a device called a
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‘Joyboard’ which was basically a plastic board built onto a
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joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the
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Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the
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system programmer responsible would calm down by concentrating on a
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solution while sitting cross-legged on a Joyboard trying to keep the board
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in balance. This position resembled that of a meditating guru. Sadly, the
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joke was removed fairly early on (but there's a well-known patch to restore
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it in more recent versions).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="guru.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gweep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">guru </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gweep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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