Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!phaedrus From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Interrupt on IIsi? Message-ID: <10864@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 06:04:16 GMT References: Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 25 In article su0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sherman Uitzetter) writes: > I just recently purchased a Mac IIsi and can't get the >interrupt key combination on the keyboard to work. >Supposedly command-powerkey should do it. #set MASSIVE_UNDERSTATEMENT on Many people seem to be having problems with this. #set MASSIVE_UNDERSTATEMENT off I'm told by reasonably knowledgeable sources that command-power must be held down for at least a full second to generate the interrupt. This works on all the IIsi's I've seen (both of them!). If this is intentional design by Apple, though, I don't follow the reasoning for it; it certainly seems to shoot down any hopes of debugging anything that happens quickly, unless you can predict at least one second in advance what's going to happen. Does Apple honestly think that someone's going to hold down Command and press the Power key accidentally? (Whoops, my left hand slipped and hit two keys four inches apart simultaneously... :) ) -- Internet: phaedrus@u.washington.edu (University of Washington, Seattle) The views expressed here are not those of this station or its management. "If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, consider an exciting career as a guillotine operator!"