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- From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
- Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.190221.27904@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
- References: <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 19:02:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu> horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
- writes:
- > heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
- > break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
- > get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.
- >
- > I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
- > having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
- > seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
- > only 2 reformats of their hard disks.
-
- I think the <alt><cmd>* is very nice, fits the NeXT UI better, and
- does not have you accidentally switching your system from thin to thick
- wire while you grope around behind your overwired system box.
- (as is the case with DEC systems).
-
- I have yet to see <alt><cmd>* not reset the machine, unless the
- keyboard cable has been cut ;-).
-
- -geoff
- --
- "The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
- eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
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- Geoffrey Brunkhorst, RCF brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
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