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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SIGPWR signal in system v
Message-ID: <1991May9.052554.24229@pegasus.com>
Date: 9 May 91 05:25:54 GMT
References: <1991May6.112253.5344@cs.tcd.ie> <1991May6.224407.22544@federal.uucp> <724@adpplz.UUCP>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>Another data point: I just saw a _card_ for a PC that implements the
>feature: it's got on-board battery backup to hold the disk up long
>enough for a memory save. I have a faint suspicion that there are some 
>applications that won't come back clean.

Not to mention the nastyness of having that much potentially caustic
battery chemistry in such intimate contact with your systems internals.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com