home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27 / NN_1992_27.iso / spool / alt / folklore / computer / 16510 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-11-20  |  792 b 
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!unipalm!tim
  2. From: tim@unipalm.co.uk (Tim Goodwin)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
  4. Subject: Re: sync; sync; sync; was Re: Computer Superstition
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.170550.14224@unipalm.co.uk>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 17:05:50 GMT
  7. References: <10292323.7317.11306@kcbbs.gen.nz> <1992Nov18.132507.22731@bnr.uk> <NICKEL.92Nov18181710@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
  8. Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
  9. Lines: 10
  10.  
  11. nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) writes:
  12.  
  13. >But back in the old days, it was not a bad idea to type sync three
  14. >times (and not as "sync; sync; sync") to make sure the first call was
  15. >completed. 
  16.  
  17. If you have disk activity lights, the lack of flicker on typing the second
  18. "sync" is pleasantly reassuring.
  19.  
  20. Tim.
  21.