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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Coherent *nix (was Concurrent UNIX)
Message-ID: <41523@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 90 20:10:40 GMT
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Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
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In article <1830@overlf.UUCP> emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele) writes:
>In article <41491@cci632.UUCP>, tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:
...on a discussion of UNIX OS's on 80x86 machines allowing CTL-ALT-DEL to
   reboot the system
>> I could do this under Microport V/AT (in fact, the friendly folks at
>> Microport actually wrote in their documentation that that was the preferred
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>> way to do a shutdown). 
>
>I can't see how this could possibly be a PREFERRED method to do this.

Nonetheless, that's what their book said, along with much gab about how good
their file hardening was.  Note that I didn't offer editorial comment on
whether that being the PREFERRED way was good or not (for the record I DON'T
think it should be preferred), but given my scenario (pretty much a
single-user system 99% of the time), and given half a dozen sync's, it
seemed to be adequate (I never lost a file).

On a serious multi-user system it wouldn't be so hot, but on most serious
multi-user systems that I'm familiar with, they also have single
switches/buttons that could bring down the system Real Fast (including
hardware resets on 80x86 machines).

Is there a moral?  Is Elmer Fudd a dolt?  No, but there is a moral: if you
want a system to be foolproof, you have a rich fantasy life that I'd like to
share (god, how Alt.Personals of me! :-) ).
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