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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!uhura1!bryan From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt) Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386????? Message-ID: <CC88nr.3up@uhura1.uucp> Reply-To: bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc. References: <CBuoK1.4C6@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <CBwnpv.2Ju@autelca.ascom.ch> <255air$1c4@cleese.apana.org.au> <CGD.93Aug22193504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 19:26:10 GMT Lines: 20 In article <CGD.93Aug22193504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >In article <255air$1c4@cleese.apana.org.au> newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes: >>Why put your system into >>a state in which it can be accidentally rebooted if you lean on the >>keyboard in the wrong way? You mean like L1-A on a SPARCstation? :-) >why put your system into a state where some weenie can walk >up to it and reboot it to try to get to a DOS prompt, etc. This is precisely the reason ctrl-alt-delete support was provided -- to provide a clean shutdown if some weenie does this. If the machine didn't reboot, what's the next thing the weenie would do? Hit the big red switch... -- Bryan Curnutt Stoner Associates, Inc. bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net 5177 Richmond Ave, Suite 1075 (713)626-9568 voice (713)622-7832 fax Houston TX 77056