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- From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
- Subject: Re: sync; sync; sync; was Re: Computer Superstition
- Message-ID: <thecure.722337922@munagin>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Nov18.132507.22731@bnr.uk> <NICKEL.92Nov18181710@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Nov19.134510.16559@uvm.edu> <By13r5.B5L@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:25:22 GMT
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- dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov19.134510.16559@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) writes:
- >>Or today's modern operating systems which know to sync their disks
- >>before rebooting or halting. From reboot(1):
- > ^^^ Cool! I want an account
- >on a computer where any user can invoke reboot....
-
- >;-)
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- Some of the early machines had a command called crash(1).
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- The logic was, that if you took away the challenge of crashing the machine,
- then people wouldn't bother. It worked until people started using
- computers that they knew nothing about.
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