Editing Guru Meditation (section)

==Origins==
The term "Guru Meditation Error" originated as an in-house joke in Amiga's early days. The company had a product called the ''[[Joyboard]]'' for the [[Atari 2600]] [[home video game console]], a game controller much like a [[joystick]] but operated by the feet, similar to the [[Wii Balance Board]]. Early in the development of the Amiga computer operating system, the company's developers became so frustrated with the system's frequent [[crash (computing)|crashes]] that, as a relaxation technique, a game was developed where a person would sit cross-legged on the Joyboard, resembling an Indian [[guru]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mical |first=Robert J. |date=January 1987 |title=How We Created the AMIGA Computer |url=https://archive.org/details/info-magazine-13 |archive-url= |archive-date= |magazine=[[Info Magazine]] |pages=45–46 |issue=13}}</ref> The player tried to remain extremely still; the winner was the player who stayed still the longest. If the player moved too much, a "guru meditation" error occurred.<ref name="meditation">
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