Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a665
From: a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <3623@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 15:56:46 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu writes:
> You guys are forgetting something aren't you?  While, it is easy to
> go and reboot an Amiga with the three fingered salute, you just don't
> got and reset a UNIX box at a whim.  /etc/shutdown

In a computer lab (which shall go unnamed :) students regularly subjected the
Apollo's to such abuse--diskless or server...didn't matter--I've seen students
hit the "reset" switch (SW1), turn it off & on (really fast), and "/etc/xdmc
ex"...[shrug]...I've also seen a row of nodes (hooked by token ring) go
"pop"...[sigh]...Of course, this wouldn't happen if the systems weren't swiss
cheese.  Here's hoping that 3000UX users _never_ have to nerve pinch their
Amiga...