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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MacWeek Article Revisited
Summary: There must be 50 ways to crash a NeXT...
Message-ID: <5670@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 07:36:08 GMT
References: <1990Jul9.033654.24628@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Jul14.060523.13513@math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Jul25.211440.25462@acc.stolaf.edu>
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In article <1990Jul25.211440.25462@acc.stolaf.edu> hannum@schubert.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>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.

   Actually, it's pretty easy to get the machine hung enough that it doesn't
respond to the keyboard at all (mouse frozen, keyboard frozen, 
magic key combinations not working). If you call up the NMI window and
hit the NMI combination twice in quick succession, the NMI gets, er, 
masked, along with everything else, and the only recourse I've found is
to pull the plug. There are other ways it seems but I've never been
able to find out afterwards what they were ...
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