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From: woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: New Shutdown
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 18:43:06 EST
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In article <1337@husc6.UUCP> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes:
>What's the difference between "Restart" and "Shutdown" in the
>new Finder 5.4?  When I select Shutdown on my MacPlus with
>WhisperDrive SCSI drive, I get crashed back to Macsbug, but
>typing "RB" there causes an instanteous reboot, as though the
>Shutdown process worked.  Selecting Restart causes a near
>instanteous reboot that is preceeded by a half second "whirr"
>from my drive 

The difference is apparent when you play with one of the newly-released
Mac 2 machines.  The option "Restart" causes the Mac 2 to restart; ie,
do the "shutdown" that we are all used to on the older Macs.  The option
"Shutdown" now not only shuts down the computer but actually turns it off.

The Mac 2 has soft power-on and power-off.  To power the machine off,
you either (1) use the "Shutdown" option, or (2) pull the plug.

Damned Apple; if they'd only learned the lesson of the Lisa, and came
up with a way to turn the machine off without pulling the plug when
the machine crashes so horribly that the Finder won't run.  Well, when
I get my own Mac 2 (in a few years, when they start shipping to
Universities), I'm putting it on a power strip.  That way when the 
machine hopelessly crashes, I can turn it off easily without getting up.

I'm supprised that Finder 5.4 presented the "Restart"/"Shutdown" options
on a Mac+, but I never tried.  On my Mac512K with the HD20 startup file,
Finder 5.4 only presents "Shutdown", which does the "Shutdown" we're
all familiar with.
- William Woody                          Mac! > ][n && /|\
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