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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.111708.25027@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1993Jan3.174659.23033@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:17:08 GMT
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- Timothy F. Sipples (sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
-
- > Now just one question: how am I supposed to explain the concept of a
- > "virtual machine" to someone who hasn't used computers before, in ten
- > words or less?
-
- > ["virtual machine" != Window/Session deleted for brevity]
-
- Of course, OS/2 adds a lot to the equation. I suppose in the OS/2 case we
- could use application (or copy of application).
-
- > function is already in there. CTRL-ALT-DEL isn't going to do any
- > better -- this is a protected mode operating system, after all. If
- > CTRL-ESC doesn't work, then IBM's programmers need to find out what
- > the problem is and correct it. (ALT-F4 for tasks running in windows,
- > DOS, Windows, or OS/2, accomplishes the same thing, by the way.)
-
- I think that sums it all up. On numerous occasions, I get to a point when
- my WPS is going nuts and I can't kill an APP and CTRL-ESC and wait doesn't
- even work but CTRL-ALT-DEL still does and when CAD kicks the bucket, 9
- times out of 10 CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK^2 _will_ work. So you are right, IBM needs
- to make those three equally reliable (and not the lowest common denominator
- either).
-
- > For ten years plus CTRL-ALT-DEL has meant "reboot the system." Why
- > should that change (in standalone OS/2, anyway, which is single user)?
- > The only thing I think that needs to be changed is to make it idiot
- > proof -- you have to hit it twice to get the system to restart.
-
- And add a way of killing WPS which is equally reliable would be nice too. I
- suppose the main reason I, and most others, are whinging about C-A-D and
- wanting to overburden it is that other things are not as reliable as it. If
- IBM fix that problem, all this nattering abot CAD will probably disappear.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-