Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!apple!agate!shelby!neon!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Interrupt on IIsi? Message-ID: <1990Nov9.205631.29554@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 9 Nov 90 20:56:31 GMT References: <10864@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 29 In article <10864@milton.u.washington.edu>, phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes: |> 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... :) ) This would not be such a bad feature IF YOU COULD TURN IT OFF. If the 1 second interval is done in software, it should be possible to change. Does anyone actually know how it's implemented? -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu