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There are alot of pressures to upgrade from Boyfriend 6.0 to
husband 1.0. However before doing so make sure you understand the
implications of this change...
For one, system activity will be severely limited and you will
be compelled to instigate rigorous daily routines in space management,
garbage disposal and disc cleaning often with an accompanying
increase in system administration. This program can also be a
drain on many resources and demand constant attention. You will encounter
an increased amount of interrupts and error messages, while
the program often cancels processes without warning, very often
crashing the system. In addition, Husband 1.0 often refuses to respond
to your commands and frequently appears to be running processes which
you have not authorised. If this happens alot, do not respond to any
interactive requests from the program and severely limit demand for extra
bytes.
Every evening there will be a huge surge in demand for
megabytes and if not satisfied, the process will become unresponsive and
has been known on occasion to damage hardware.
Every so often you will be promised a new release of the
program, but unfortunately, upon loading this new release, it is generally
found to be almost identical to the old one, with very few feature
changes and most of the same old annoying bugs which you were undoubtedly
promised would not be there in the new release. Put up with it or
discontinue use entirely. Husband 1.0 is a flawed program; many of the bugs
are so deeply encoded that, even if they can be located, they are impossible
to eradicate and have to be tolerated.
Husband 1.0 will frequently make use of low level language and
may not understand higher level commands so you must be prepared to use
basic functions when required. Often a few robust algorithms in handshaking
mode will produce a good response.
After a while, Husband 1.0 has a tendency to take up more space
than originally allocated, often spreading in size and slowing down
correspondingly. If this happens, be very careful as there is increased
risk of complete system failure. Around this time, Husband 1.0 will also
tend to lose bits from the top of the stack, although these will often
multiply and be found lower down the stack.
Another problem with this program is that Husband 1.0 can also
spawn unknown child processes, which can sometimes inadvertently appear,
make huge demands on the program and force unwanted interaction with old
versions of 1.nightstand.
Sometimes, Husband 1.0 will end a process prematurely, before
you have the required result. This generally results in spawned
processes scattered over your system which must be located and removed.
More often than not, however, Husband 1.0 will appear to take an
inordinately long time to complete a relatively simple process. While
waiting for tedious processes to complete you may find it useful to
distract yourself by perusing manuals for alternative programs, Stud 2.0
or Lover 6.9.
On completion of a process, Husband 1.0 will often inadvertently
apply the sleep command, or suspend system activity with a Ctrl ZZ. There
is nothing you can do in this case, but leave the program and try again
later.
Ultimately, as the program becomes older, it will become more
difficult to produce hardcopy, and you will find that most of you work ends
up on floppies. In addition, you will be needing software support more often
than you'd like. If and when this happens, try to find a copy of Toyboy 1.1.
Make sure you have used Ctrl ZZ on Husband 1.0 before loading
Toyboy 1.1 and, of course, check for viruses before using any new program.
Toyboy 1.1 should come with new hardware which can be plugged into any of
your ports.
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