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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Powering up/down a Mac II (was Re: question about protection)
Message-ID: <25400@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 89 00:48:00 GMT
References: <172@xenon.UUCP> <70176CXT105@PSUVM> <49816@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <49816@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes:
>In article <70176CXT105@PSUVM> CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate) writes:
>>It would be REALLY NICE to have a hard power button on the Mac II.
>
>And completely unnecessary.  This is what the reset switch is for!  You got
>...

I have never crashed my Mac II bad enough so that it would not power
down with the soft power button, but several times I got it to the
point where it wouldn't reset and had to be power cycled. Thus 

    Hard Power off > Soft Power off
                               (according to Christopher Tate)
    Soft Power off > Reset switch 
                               (according to me)

and the original point holds. Of course, if it had more operating
system support than most toasters (:-) this whole discussion might be
academic, as it might crash less often and less hard.

				Peter Desnoyers

ps. My opinions do not represent Apple policy in any way. Especially
the toaster comment.