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From: hobbes@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steven J  Mattson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Banging on del in 0.9 Terminal
Message-ID: <43470b4f.19bde@flea.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 17 May 89 15:35:00 GMT
References: <190@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <190@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>, by carlson@aftac.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson):
> In article <5008@pt.cs.cmu.edu> eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) writes:
>>Has anyone noticed that hitting a bunch of rapid fire deletes (a nasty
>>habit I'll grant you) causes the Workspace Manager to wedge?  Maybe I
>>should save my rapid fires for video games.
> 
> Reminds me of the time I rapid fired the "Help" key on a VAXstation (VMS)
> (without even logging in), thereby crashing the system.
 
How 'bout something a little closer to home:

I was pretty shocked the day someone walked up to me and 
informed me that rapid-firing the power key by itself 
would power off my NeXT.  I've been able to reproduce 
the result, but not every time.  This was on my soon-
to-be-upgraded 0.8 machine, anyone care to try this
with 0.9 and see if they kept the feature?

 -Steve Mattson
  Computer Aided Engineering Network
  University of Michigan
  hobbes@caen.engin.umich.edu