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From: hannum@schubert.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MacWeek Article Revisited
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.211440.25462@acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 21:14:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 14 Jul 90 06:05:23 GMT


In article <1990Jul14.060523.13513@math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:

>A simple getty sitting on an open (floating, temporarily disconnected) serial
>line eats up huge amounts of CPU time when it *should* be sitting idle. But
>for some reason, it prefers to spit out "Next Login" endlessly, cutting in to
>my compile performance. I've got a little RS232 tester connector on the line,
>it shows that DCD is low, and that getty is set on a dialup device, but it
>always succeeds in opening the device. Pretty poor. (And this stupid Mac
>mini-din serial connector drives me nuts too. No ring indicate, no RTS/CTS
>flow control, what a stupid idea.)

Trying to getty a non-existant serial port is rather dumb.  Just kill your
getty and be done with it...


>Oh, horrors, then they might have to actually provide a primitive power switch!
>I think this soft-power switch stuff is nonsense. At least on my good old HP41
>it made sense - you could program the thing to turn itself both off and on. It
>doesn't seem to serve much good on the NeXT, and it's damn frustrating when the
>machine goes off the deep end. (Then I have to crawl around down dark corners
>looking for the plug...) Of course, I have a similar gripe about MacIIs. So it
>goes... (Don't know what it is, but these things tend to crash pretty often in
>my experience. Am I cursed?)

No you don't.  Just hit Command-Command-~ to get into the mini-Monitor, or if
it's *really* screwed, Alt-Command-* (on the numeric pad) will always reboot.
--
 
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