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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS DOS crashes on random keyboard input
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 13:01:39 EST
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> If I set my 9 month old in front of an IBM PC or an AT&T 6300
> and let him pound on the keyboard, in short order he manages
> to crash the machine.  (Often the screen goes blank, and much
> of the time CTRL ALT DEL won't reboot, I have to do a hard reset.)

Try doing the same thing at a shell prompt on a Unix terminal, and be sure
to include the Ctrl and Esc keys.  For that matter, try the same thing on
a 3270 attached to a 370, and include the Sys Req key.  I imagine it is
possible to insulate the terminal/PC availablility from hostile attack,
but probably not without significant reduction in usability.

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