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From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: VM/CMS programming and REXX
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 00:27:53 EDT
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>... This is like pulling the power cord on a 
>real machine. Not much chance to do any recovery or go down gracefully.

I'll bet the real IBM 370 has a power-fail interrupt.  Does the virtual
370 have this?  It seems like just the thing to use when the user aborts
a program.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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